Tobacco regulations
New regulations have come into force regulating standardised 'plain' packaging for:
- tobacco products
- herbal products for smoking
- electronic cigarettes
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) produces guidance on the Action on Smoking and Health - ASH
What's involved?
These regulations will require retailers to ensure that they must only sell:
- Tobacco in standardised packaging (dull brown colour with matt finish)
- Tobacco with health warnings covering 65% of the front & back of packaging
- Packs with minimum of 20 cigarettes
- Roll-you-own tobacco with a min weight of 30g
- Unflavoured cigarettes or roll-your-own tobacco (with exemption of menthol cigarettes which are allowed until 20 May 2020)
- E-cigarettes with a health warning
- E-cigarettes with a maximum of 20 mg/ml of nicotine (unless licensed as a medicine)
- E-cigarette refills with max size of 10ml
- Disposable e-cigarettes, cartridges and tanks with a max size of 2ml
Further information
For more information and guidance please see: