Measures regarding cigarettes in Indonesia

Indonesia is one of the largest tobacco producers in the world with about seventy million adult smokers in the country and the authorities to prevent smoking in the new generations have raised the limit on the sale of cigarettes from eighteen to twenty-one years and banned the sale of single cigarettes, a common economic alternative in some local retailers that could especially favor younger people who have fewer resources and cannot buy a whole pack. Restrictions also regarding the sale of electronic and traditional cigarettes with e-commerce and social media applications, advertising is then prohibited (this last measure will come into force within two years while the others seem to be immediate). According to some these measures will not be enough to limit smoking however the provision that regulate the sale of electronic cigarettes is good.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Data:    01/08/2024              n°:   5711      

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