Parties' news

• Australia – High Court rejects tobacco industry challenge to plain packaging
  16 August 2012
• Bangladesh – National tobacco control law amended
  28 May 2013
• Brazil - Flavoured cigarettes banned
  19 March 2012
• Brazil to become world’s largest smoke-free country
  4 January 2012
• Brazil – Ethical guidelines against tobacco industry interference launched
  8 May 2012
• Burkina Faso - Workshop aims to boost tobacco cessation
  23 November 2011
• Burkina Faso – Decrees adopted to ensure effective implementation of the 2010 tobacco control act
  16 January 2012
• Chile – comprehensive tobacco control legislation adopted
  6 March 2013
• China tightens rules on smoking in public places and indirect advertising
  5 August 2011
• Colombia - New tobacco-control measures come into effect
  21 July 2011
• Comoros - Amended Tobacco Control Act
  28 March 2011
• Congo – Tobacco control act adopted
  18 December 2012
• Cook Islands – Tobacco Control Action Plan adopted
  15 January 2013
• Costa Rica – New tobacco control act adopted
  8 March 2012
• Ecuador – New tobacco control law adopted
  14 September 2011
• European Union - Revision of the Tobacco Products Directive
  16 January 2013
• Fiji - Cabinet approves Tobacco Control Decree
  8 December 2010
• Fiji – Ministry of Health publishes new Tobacco Control Regulations
  3 May 2013
• France - Health consequences of exposure to tobacco smoke acknowledged by the court
  17 March 2011
• Gambia - New tobacco tax policy to be introduced
  4 January 2013
• Georgia - State Committee on Tobacco Control established
  21 March 2013
• Germany – Cigarettes containing menthol capsules banned
  16 October 2012
• Honduras - New tobacco control act adopted
  21 February 2011
• Hungary - Amendment to law protecting non-smokers
  26 April 2011
• Hungary – New decree on combined warnings and ban on smoking in all public places
  20 January 2012
• Hungary – New regulation of tobacco sales introduced
  3 May 2013
• Iceland – new regulations on graphic health warnings introduced
  25 February 2013
• India - Mandatory picture to be included in point-of-sale displays
  16 September 2011
• India - New regulations on depictions of tobacco products in films and on TV
  14 November 2011
• India – New pictorial warnings required
  27 May 2011
• India – “Heartbreak” anti-bidi smoking campaign launched
  3 August 2011
• Iraq – Comprehensive tobacco control legislation adopted
  13 June 2012
• Ireland – New graphic health warnings to help people quit smoking
  15 January 2013
• Israel - Complete ban on tobacco vending machines
  10 August 2011
• Lebanon - New tobacco-control law adopted
  16 September 2011
• Malta - Pictorial warnings mandatory on tobacco packaging
  27 April 2011
• Mongolia – Comprehensive tobacco control legislation revised
  2 May 2013
• Nepal - New tobacco control bill approved
  11 April 2011
• Nigeria - A National Tobacco Control Bill was passed by the Nigerian Senate
  15 March 2011
• Norway: Prohibition on the visible display of tobacco products at the points of sale
  16 October 2012
• Philippines – new taxes on tobacco products introduced
  15 January 2013
• Plurinational State of Bolivia - Picture warnings required
  25 May 2011
• Republic of Moldova – Government adopts national tobacco control strategy and action plan
  14 February 2012
• Russian Federation – President signs comprehensive tobacco control law
  12 March 2013
• Rwanda – Comprehensive tobacco control legislation adopted
  2 May 2013
• Serbia celebrates the first anniversary of the law on protection from exposure to tobacco smoke
  22 November 2011
• Singapore – Misleading descriptors on tobacco packaging banned
  9 May 2012
• Suriname – comprehensive tobacco control legislation passed
  25 February 2013
• Thailand - New regulations on graphic health warnings introduced
  10 June 2013
• Turkmenistan – President approves national action plan on tobacco control
  14 February 2012
• Ukraine - New requirements for pictorial warnings
  4 April 2011
• Ukraine – All forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship banned
  16 March 2012
• Ukraine – New law extends smoking ban
  21 June 2012
• United Arab Emirates – New regulation requires graphic pictorial warnings
  7 November 2011
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Ban on sales from vending machines in Northern Ireland
  20 January 2012
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Vending machine sales banned in England
  7 November 2011
• Venezuela - Workplaces and public places go smoke-free
  31 May 2011
• Viet Nam – First comprehensive tobacco control law adopted
  3 May 2013