Law & Policy Guide

All of the resources found in the Law & Policy guide in one place.

The current Government strategies for tackling smoking.

The laws regarding advertising on billboards, newspapers, magazines, online, on TV, films, and on-demand programmes, brand sharing, tobacco sponsorship of events, advertising and display at the point of sale in shops, and e-cigarette advertising.

Major tobacco-related case law relevant to England, as well as rulings by regulatory bodies.

Law and policy from the World Health Organization (WHO), and EU law still in place from when the UK was a Member State.

Guidelines for the portrayal of smoking in the media.

Health warnings and standardised packaging requirements for cigarettes and related products.

The laws relating to tobacco and e-cigarette product contents, including design features, flavours, tar, nicotine and emissions.

Disclosure requirements for tobacco and related products.

Smokefree legislation including smokefree indoor public places and workplaces, vehicles and modes of transportation, vehicles carrying persons under 18, and specific exceptions.

The UK has among the highest tobacco taxes in the world, and the most stringent requirements for tackling the illicit trade.

The responsibility of doctors with regards to their patients’ smoking, the availability of quitting aids such as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) on the NHS and more widely, and NHS and local authority responsibility for the provision of stop smoking services.

WHO FCTC obligations and UK Government guidelines on contact with the tobacco industry.

Tobacco traceability and security features help to reduce the circulation of illicit tobacco on the UK market.

Laws relating to the sale of tobacco products to minors, age of sale laws, proxy purchasing, tobacco vending machines, and sale of e-cigarettes.