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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.
21st March 2023
Taiwan: Amendments to tobacco legislation banning all types of e-cigarette and regulating heated tobacco products will come into force tomorrow. Heated tobacco products will have to undergo a health risk assessment before they can be sold in Taiwan. E-cigarette retailers risk fines of between TWD200,000 ($6,500) and TWD1m ($32,800), while anyone caught vaping could be fined TWD2,000 ($65) to TWD10,000 ($328).
20th March 2023
- Taiwan: The Health Ministry has proposed banning the use of floral, fruity, chocolate and mint-flavoured additives in tobacco products. If adopted, the measure would come into effect within 18 months of publishing. In January, the parliament adopted amendments to the tobacco legislation, allowing heated tobacco products that undergo a health risk assessment; however, the enforcement date has yet to be decided by the executive branch.
22nd February 2023
Taiwan: Customs officers at Taipei airport seized 1,138 packs of heated tobacco consumables on Sunday from passengers flying in to Taiwan, media reports. Heated tobacco, while recently regulated, is not allowed to be imported or sold without pre-market approval.
13th January 2023
- Taiwan: Yesterday, 12th January, the Legislative Yuan adopted the amendments to the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act, which for the first time regulates heated tobacco. In order to be allowed on the market, these products would require a health risk assessment. The tobacco purchasing age will also be raised from 18 to 20.
22nd April 2022
7th April 2022
Taiwan: About 97% of parents who responded to a survey conducted by the National Alliance of Parents Organisations would like all novel tobacco products to be banned, press reports. The organisation estimated that 73,000 teenagers in Taiwan use e-cigarettes and "similar products". A bill to explicitly ban e-cigarettes and regulate heated tobacco is currently at the final enactment stage.
