Alternative tobacco and nicotine products in India
Regulatory reports
Detailed legal reports outlining industry regulation, analysis of the laws, and pertinent organisations
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From February of 2022, subscribers will be able to view and filter individual regulatory alerts per region. If you want to get our monthly compilations, visit our alerts Round-up section.
Alerts
Our legal experts track the evolving regulation around the tobacco alternatives sector on a daily basis. These alerts are then compiled into our Monthly Round-up section.
2nd September 2022
India: The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is cracking down on advertising agencies to ensure strict compliance with the guidelines for preventing misleading advertisement, especially surrogate advertising. The ministry noticed that these guidelines are not being complied with, and prohibited goods – such as chewing tobacco and gutkha – are still being advertised through surrogate goods and services. The ministry has also reiterated that the guidelines are equally applicable to the manufacturers of chewing tobacco.25th July 2022
India: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has published new rules in the Gazette of India setting out new text and graphic health warnings for both combustible and smokeless tobacco products. The new warnings will become mandatory on 1st December.
27th May 2022
- India: On 23rd May, Tamil Nadu – a state in the south of India with a population of more than 70m – renewed the ban on the manufacture, storage, transport, distribution or sale of any food or chewable product that contains tobacco or nicotine.
7th April 2022
India: A group of MPs from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urged the government yesterday to take steps to remove designated smoking areas from hotels, restaurants and airports, press reports. The use of heated tobacco is not prohibited by federal law, but officials sometimes treat its use as if it were smoking.
