Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in Oman

5th November 2024: Kuwait: The International Conference on Tobacco Control organised by the Ministry of Health has recommended that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries establish national observatories to monitor tobacco industry activities and align with the World Health Organization (WHO) standards on tobacco control. Additionally, the conference advocated for regulating novel emerging products in the region, such as nicotine pouches, and recommended increasing excise taxes on tobacco.
8th January 2024: Oman: The Consumer Protection Authority has issued decree 756/2023, raising administrative fines for using or distributing heated tobacco products and e-cigarettes. The minimum fine for a first offence is now OMR1,000 ($2,600) instead of OMR100 ($260), to be doubled for a second offence. If the violation is repeated, an administrative fine of OMR50 ($130) per day will be imposed, as long as it does not exceed OMR2,000 ($5,200) in total.
7th February 2023: Oman: The Consumer Protection Authority has issued a decree, No. 206/2023, raising the level of fines for using or distributing oral (non-smoked) tobacco products. The minimum fine for a first offence is now OMR100 ($260) and the maximum OMR1,000 OMR ($2,600) – up from OMR400 ($1,040) – to be doubled for a second offence.
23rd June 2022: Oman: The Omani Consumer Protection Authority today published a warning stressing its commitment to enforcing the ban on alternative (smokeless) tobacco products. It announced the arrest and fining of a foreign worker in the coastal city of Barka for selling chewing tobacco, which is banned under resolution No. (256/2015), amended by resolution No. (301/2016).

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