The Government has prepared a draft bill extending the smoking ban to new tobacco products without combustion, known as electronic cigarettes, and other types of new products already smoking from January 2017.
in addition to the smoking ban this type of product in all locations where it can no longer smoke the so-called traditional tobacco, these new amendments to the law will require that the packaging of these products have also labeling to warn of the dangers to health that its consumption can cause. The general warning should “cover 30% of the most visible surface of the unit packet and any outside packaging.”
According to the document to which the public had access, the bill aims to protect citizens’ exposure involuntary tobacco smoke “and create measures” to reduce demand related to dependence and cessation of its consumption “, including the concept of smoking” new tobacco products without combustion to produce aerosols, vapors, gases or inhalable particles ” . Want even “strengthen the measures to be applied to these new products on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, advertising and promotion.”
In this regard, the government intends to prohibit “commercial claims” that refer to “that a particular tobacco product is less potentially harmful than others, or has a reduced risk to consumer health. “
it becomes also illegal to create electronic pages” for information, dissemination or promotion tobacco products “. It will be also forbidden “advertising and promotion devices or cartridges,” including “wrapping paper, electronic devices for tobacco heating and other devices or accessories necessary for the use of tobacco products, electronic cigarettes and herbal products smoking. “
smoking abroad
Claiming that are not yet known,” robust and scientifically proven way “all the effects that may arise from the continued use of the new type products for smoking, including the so-called electronic cigarettes, the government wants to be made studies to better inform the consumer. So, will now require manufacturers or importers of such products “prepare a report on the results of studies” exist, which “should include a summary and a detailed compilation of the available scientific literature on the additive” and “summary internal data on the effects “of it. These reports must be submitted 18 months after the entry into force of the new legislation.
Considering that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is particularly harmful during the period of childhood and adolescence, the Government considers as necessary “to maintain and strengthen effective protection measures, particularly in schools and other places open to children and young people “.
in this sense, the places for children under 18 years, in schools, regardless of the age of the students, and in establishments where health care is provided, which is already banned smoking in all areas, also happens to be smoking outside in areas located “near the doors or windows of their buildings, a minimum distance to prevent the entry of smoking the interior of the building “. The draft of the proposed law does not, however, what minimum distance.
No to loyalty cards
Another of the new amendments to the call tobacco law that the government wants to approve visa prevent the purchase of any type of tobacco or similar means any advantage to the consumer. The Executive thus seeks to prevent tobacco purchase “through the use of databases, electronic customer registration, issuing loyalty cards, assigning points or prizes, or use of other loyalty techniques customers”. This concerns, for example, consumers who currently purchase tobacco in a hypermarket and get on your loyalty card points or money that can then be used to buy another product for sale this commercial surface.
The exhibition the bill of reasons, the executive notes that in Portugal tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, estimated to contribute to the death of more than ten thousand people a year.
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