Tobacco Control Law Amended
烟草控制法（修订版）
ກົດໝາຍ ວ່າດ້ວຍການຄວບຄຸມຢາສູບ (ສະບັບປັບປຸງ)
Summary
This Law stipulates fundamental regulations and measures for tobacco control, aiming to reduce tobacco hazards and protect public health. Its scope of application covers tobacco production, sales, advertising, and use, and it specifies the duties of relevant administrative authorities as well as prohibited or restricted matters, so as to promote the establishment of a smoke-free environment.
Articles
Article 1
Article 1 (amended) Objective
This Law sets out principles, regulations and measures for the management, monitoring and
enforcement of tobacco control in order to make the implementation of such activities more
effective and efficient to reduce the tobacco use and related unnecessary expenditure. This Law will
protect public health and the environment, enable regionally and international coordination and
contributing to the development of the country.
Article 2
Article 2 (amended) Tobacco Control
A tobacco product refers to products made entirely or partly from tobacco leaves and other
products that contain nicotine, which is toxic and addictive.
Tobacco control refer to a range of measures to manage, monitor and regulate the production,
importation, exportation, distribution, trading, advertising, promotion, sponsorship, consumtion,
and disposal of tobacco products, including printing of health warning labels, establishment of non-
smoking areas, and other measures, all of which aim at reducing tobacco use and the detrimental
effects from tobacco products and exposure to second-hand smoke.
Article 3
Article 3 (amended) Definition of terms
Terms used in this Law have the following meanings:
1. Tobacco use means smoking, chewing, blowing, smelling, sucking, inhaling, eating,
spreading on, fumigating, spraying into the mouth or nose or other means that produce smoke or
vapor, aerossol, or Other substances;
2. Second-hand smoke means the tobacco smoke exhaled by a smoker or arising from a
burning tobacco product;
3. Exposure to second-hand smoke means exposure to tobacco smoke exhaled by a smoker
or smoke arising from a burning tobacco product;
4. Imitation Tobacco product means a product that is similar to a tobacco product;
5. Automatic cigarette vending machine means a machine where people can buy cigarettes
or Other tobacco products using cash, a credit/debit acrd, or other means of payment;
6. Business operator means any manufacturer, importer, exporter, wholesaler, distributor or
retailer of tobacco products;
7. Incomplete compliance tobacco product means a tobacco product which is authorized but
is produced, imported, exported, distributed, traded not fully in accordance with Laws and
regulations;
8. Illegal tobacco product means factory-made and hand-made tobacco products which are
manufactured, imported, exported, distributed and traded without authorization;
9. Sponsorship from tobacco industry means all types of direct and indirect support through
any activity or means e.g. sponsorship for education, sport, art, culture, medical equipment,
research, analysis, agriculture, livestock, corporate social responsibility to encourage or promote
the sale and use of tobacco products;
10. Advertising of tobacco product means an act undertaken by any direct or indirect means
aiming to encourage, provide incentive for, or promote the purchase or use of a tobacco product
through persons, printing, television, radio, cinema, electronic media, video, telephone, billboards,
posters, picture exhibitions, tobacco product displays at the point of sale, social activity and other
means;
11. Indoor means any place with a roof, with or without a wall, whether permanent or
temporary, including balcony, lift, stairs, reception rooms, building extensions, cafeterias, toilets,
recreation rooms, annexed houses, huts, and others.
12. Notification of import documents means declaration of the number of imported tobacco
products with samples, ingredients, composition of each brand and quantity of combustible
substances.
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