Tobacco Products Directive

From 20 May 2016, the EU Tobacco Products Directive has begun to come into force across the continent. Some of the headline measures include:

• graphic health warnings covering 65% of the front and 65% of the back of cigarette and roll-your-own tobacco packs
• minimum pack sizes of 20 cigarettes or 30g of roll-your-own tobacco
• restrictions on flavoured tobacco from 2017, with menthol cigarettes banned from 2020
• new regulations on e-cigarette manufacture and advertising (see our briefing page on e-cigarettes for further information)

At the same time, the UK has introduced standardised packaging for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco. See our page on plain packaging for further information.

Resources

• The Tobacco Products Directive (Directive 2014/40/EU)