Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in China

10th March 2023: China: The Healthy China Action Promotion Committee instructed enforcement agencies to "severely crack down" on illegal underage and online sales. The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration is also planning to step up enforcement of the tobacco control rules, and increase oversight over production in order to ensure that only licensed manufacturers remain on the market.
31st August 2022: China (Macau): The Macau Legislative Assembly has unanimously approved a government amendment to the New Tobacco Control Law, which prohibits the manufacture, import, export, distribution and transport of oral tobacco and heated tobacco. Until now, both wholesale and retail have been prohibited in Macau, a special administrative region.
9th June 2022: China (Macau): Today, the Legislative Council of Macau supported the government amendment to the New Tobacco Control Law, which prohibits the manufacture, sales, import and export of oral tobacco.
3rd June 2022: China: Today, 3rd June, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration published a Q&A reiterating that heated tobacco is subject to the same rules as cigarettes and that no heated products have been approved for sale.

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