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24th April 2023
South Korea: The government has ruled out the possibility of raising the tax applicable to heated tobacco products, as proposed by the minister of finance last week, press reports.24th April 2023
- South Korea: Eleven MPs from the ruling party, the People's Power Party, introduced a bill last week seeking to reduce the National Health Promotion Tax applicable to nicotine pouches from KRW534.5 ($0.40) per g to KRW294.4 ($0.22) per 20 pouches, as, according to them, consumer accessibility to these reduced-risk products is burdened by an excessively high tax.
19th April 2023
- South Korea: Deputy prime minister and minister of economy and finance Choo Kyung-ho said yesterday that heated tobacco products should be taxed at the same level as combustible cigarettes, press reports. Heated tobacco products are currently treated as any other tobacco product, but are taxed differently.
28th February 2023
South Korea: The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDC) last week published a report on the use of flavoured e-cigarettes, in which it called for tighter regulation of flavoured tobacco products.
23rd January 2023
South Korea: A bill was introduced last week seeking to reduce the national health promotion tax on snus and nicotine pouches from KRW534.50 ($0.43) to KRW56.10 ($0.046) per g.
28th September 2022
South Korea: The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency today warned of an increasingly widespread use by young people of flavoured tobacco products, which it says are a gateway to smoking. The agency refers to a study showing a 12% increase between 2016 and 2022 in the use of flavoured tobacco products by smokers aged 13-39.
29th August 2022
- South Korea: Today, the Ministry of Health and Welfare updated the requirements applicable to the health warnings that heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches must carry. The new requirements, which are updated every two years, will apply from 23rd December 2022 to 22nd December 2024. The notice comes with a manual with illustrations of the packaging and frequently asked questions.
23rd June 2022
South Korea: Heated tobacco products will have to carry new pictorial warnings from 23rd December following a decision by the National Health Promotion Policy Deliberative Committee to change the prescribed images. The text element of the warnings will remain unchanged.
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