New restrictions for electronic cigarettes – Renaissance (press release)

You will now be smoke electronic cigarettes in places already banned the smoking of tobacco called traditional, from January.

In schools and hospitals will also go to smoke outside, with the doors and windows of buildings, to prevent smoke input, although a minimum distance is not set.

According to the newspaper Público, the Government has prepared a draft law to take effect in 2017.

These new amendments to the law will require that the packaging of these products also have labeling to warn of the dangers to health. The general warning must cover 30% of the most visible surface of the package.

The proposed law is intended to protect citizens from involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke and create measures to reduce demand related to dependence and cessation of its consumption.

The Government also intends to ban advertising and promotion of products sold as potentially less harmful than others and with reduced risks for the consumer. It becomes illegal to create electronic pages for information and promotion of these products.