The repository of legislation on risk factors offers Member States organized, systematized, and updated legal information on the main risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This information system is an integral component of PAHO’s REGULA initiative. It is the product of broad multidisciplinary research on public sources of information on legislation and regulations in 19 Latin American countries, compiled by PAHO. (Read more)

110 Normative Acts

Dispónese que las advertencias sanitarias a ser utilizadas en los envases de productos de tabaco, que incluyen imágenes y/o pictogramas y leyendas, deberán ocupar el 80% (ochenta por ciento) inferior de ambas caras principales de toda cajilla de cigarrillos y en general en todos los paquetes y envases de productos de tabaco y en todo empaquetado y etiquetado de similar característica
Organ issuer: Ministry of Public Health
Act scope: National / Uruguay
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To prevent tobacco use by children; regulate tobacco use by individuals; enhance public awareness of the hazards of tobacco use and ensure that individuals are provided with information to make more fully informed decisions about using tobacco; protect individuals from exposure to tobacco smoke; prohibit and restrict promotional practices; prevent smuggling of tobacco; provide for regulation of tobacco products to mitigate against the harmful effects of tobacco; and provide for other related matters.
Organ issuer: Executive Branch
Act scope: Federal / Trinidad and Tobago
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AN ACT to prevent tobacco use by young people; enhance public awareness of the hazards of tobacco use and ensure that consumers are provided with information to make more fully informed decisions about using tobacco; protect individuals from exposure to tobacco smoke; prohibit or restrict promotional practices; prevent illegal conduct, including but not limited to smuggling; provide for regulation of tobacco products to mitigate against the harmful effects of tobacco; provide for sufficient regulatory flexibility to respond to new technological and scientific innovations and findings and to changes in consumer behaviours; create a national co-ordinating institution for tobacco control and provide for other related matters and purposes
Act scope: Federal / Trinidad and Tobago
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This standard prescribes the wording of a warning notice and its presentation to consumers in advertisements for cigarettes on television, radio, press, posters and other media of communication. It also covers the requirements for the advertising of other tobacco products.
Act scope: Federal / Trinidad and Tobago
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Establece como neuva advertencia sanitaria, el gráfico de la página veintecuatro (24) de la Normativa Gráfica, apropabda mediante Resolución ministerial n. 899-2008-MINSA, el que deberá consignarse en los envases de cigarrillos y de otros produtos hechos con tabaco
Organ issuer: Ministry of Health
Act scope: Federal / Peru
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