Review of the Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999

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Review of the Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999 - Consultation Document (2004)
Labelling of tobacco products - Tobacco product content regulation - Disclosure by tobacco companies - Regulation of product descriptors
Note: Consultation period has closed

Date of publication: Jul 2004

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The Ministry of Health is undertaking a review of the Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999.

The review covers health warnings and other information on tobacco packaging, the disclosure of tobacco product constituents and their emissions, and the possibility of modifying tobacco products to reduce the harm caused by their use.

The objectives of the Review include:

Ensuring that New Zealand complies with the mandatory requirements of Article 11 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, as a minimum;
Determining what warnings, messages, and other information (including the possibility of pictorial warnings) should optimally be required to be displayed on all tobacco products;
Reviewing whether the use of certain terms, descriptors and markings should be regulated or prohibited on the grounds of actual or potential ability to mislead or deceive consumers;
Reviewing the disclosure of the constituents of tobacco products and tobacco smoke; and
Reviewing options for reducing the harm caused by tobacco use.

Submissions from interested parties commenting on these and related issues are due by 5.00pm on Friday 8 October 2004.

Document availability

This publication is available for download in PDF and Word formats.

Review of the Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999 - Consultation Document (2004) (PDF, 591 KB)

Review of the Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999 - Consultation Document (2004) (Word, 479 KB)

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Publications

Review of the Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999 - Consultation Document (2004)

Labelling of tobacco products - Tobacco product content regulation - Disclosure by tobacco companies - Regulation of product descriptors