Proposal to promulgate regulations on preventing e-cigarette products in Vietnam

Proposal to promulgate regulations on preventing e-cigarette products in Vietnam

Specifically, the Prime Minister of Vietnam has proposed the following tasks and solutions to improve mechanisms, policies, and laws on the prevention and control of tobacco harm:

- Proposing to promulgate regulations on preventing e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, shisha, and other new tobacco products in the community; the sale of tobacco to minors or minors selling tobacco under the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

- Continuing to supplement, amend, and complete legal provisions on banning advertising and promotion of tobacco products, including online advertising and promotion forms on digital platforms, such as the internet;

- Prescribing a roadmap to increase the printing area of health warnings; renewing health warning images; technical regulations on tobacco products and tobacco product packaging; research and develop a roadmap to reduce the concentration of tar and nicotine in tobacco products;

- Continuing to research and propose to expand areas where smoking is completely prohibited;

- Studying appropriate sanctions for violations of regulations on the prevention and control of tobacco harms, especially acts of smoking at places where regulations are prohibited;

- Developing a roadmap to increase taxes on tobacco products to ensure that by 2030, the tax rate will reach the proportion of the retail price as recommended by the World Health Organization;

- Prescribing the minimum selling price of tobacco products, to study and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan for calculating tax on tobacco products on the retail price in order to achieve the goal of reducing the rate of tobacco use;

- Restricting and strictly controlling the sale of tobacco products at duty-free shops;...

More details can be found in Decision 568/QD-TTg, effective from the date of signing.

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