Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has inked a federal act on joining the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco products will have new rate of taxation in Russia, the regulations for warning notices on the packs will become much tougher and the ban on tobacco advertising will be imposed.
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Russia Joined Tobacco Convention
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has inked a federal act on joining the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So, tobacco products will have new rate of taxation in Russia, the regulations for warning notices on the packs will become much tougher and the ban on tobacco advertising will be imposed, Interfax reported.
The State Duma passed the bill April 11 and the Federation Council approved it five days later. The states that have ratified the Convention have five years to ban all advertising of tobacco and widen up to 30 percent the size of the warning notice on a cigarette pack.
Ratifying the convention will allow to launch a national program against smoking, the more so that respective amendments to laws have been shaped already, Deputy Health and Social Development Minister Yuri Voronin announced earlier.
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