Regulation 7 General warnings and information messages on tobacco products for smoking

(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.

F1(5)

Regulations may amend the wording of the information message in paragraph (2)(b) to be carried by a unit pack or a container pack of a tobacco product for smoking which is a GB tobacco product, taking into account scientific and market developments.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 7(5) inserted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/41, reg. 7(7) (as substituted by The Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1316), regs. 1(3), 3(9) (with reg. 5))