{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/507",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "General warnings and information messages on tobacco products for smoking",
  "text": "(1) No person may produce or supply a tobacco product for smoking unless it complies with this regulation.\n(2) A unit pack and any container pack of a tobacco product for smoking must carry the following health warnings—\n(a) a general warning consisting of the text: “Smoking kills – quit now”; and\n(b) an information message consisting of the text: “Tobacco smoke contains over 70 substances known to cause cancer”.\n(3) Each of the health warnings referred to in paragraph (2) must—\n(a) cover 50% of the area of each surface on which it appears;\n(b) be in black Helvetica bold type on a white background;\n(c) be in a font size which ensures that the text occupies the greatest possible proportion of the surface area reserved for it;\n(d) appear at the centre of that area;\n(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;\n(f) comply with the conditions set out in regulation 11; and\n(g) in the case of a unit pack of cigarettes or hand rolling tobacco, appear in the manner specified in regulation 8.\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/507/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:36:22.754234+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}