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The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016

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General warnings and information messages on tobacco products for smoking

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7.—(1) No person may produce or supply a tobacco product for smoking unless it complies with this regulation.

(2) A unit pack and any container pack of a tobacco product for smoking must carry the following health warnings—

(a)a general warning consisting of the text: “Smoking kills – quit now”; and

(b)an information message consisting of the text: “Tobacco smoke contains over 70 substances known to cause cancer”.

(3) Each of the health warnings referred to in paragraph (2) must—

(a)cover 50% of the area of each surface on which it appears;

(b)be in black Helvetica bold type on a white background;

(c)be in a font size which ensures that the text occupies the greatest possible proportion of the surface area reserved for it;

(d)appear at the centre of that area;

(e)in the case of a cuboid shaped unit pack and any container pack, be oriented parallel to the longest edge of the surface on which it appears;

(f)comply with the conditions set out in regulation 11; and

(g)in the case of a unit pack of cigarettes or hand rolling tobacco, appear in the manner specified in regulation 8.

(4) This regulation does not apply to a unit pack or container pack to which regulation 9 (large cigars and individually wrapped cigars and cigarillos) applies.

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