the state Duma adopted in the third final reading the law, which introduces for hookahs, electronic cigarettes and wapow the same restrictions as traditional tobacco products. And the same penalties for violation of these restrictions. Hookah will disappear, and with electronic cigarettes have to go into the Smoking room.
familiar with 2013 cigarette smokers and not only the law “On protection of population health from exposure to ambient smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption” is changing its name and quite dramatically, content: now he goes for “nikotinsoderzhaschie products.” Such decided to name ANY products that contain nicotine and its derivatives – all you can suck, chew, sniff or inhale through wapow or electronic cigarettes and liquids or gels with nicotine, and powders, and mixtures of… to complete the program under restrictions and prohibitions, usual cigarette smokers, are fans of hookahs.
the Bill, which was adopted on the last day of the spring session of the state Duma and will soon become law, a group of senators and deputies introduced in the Parliament in 2018. Long-term agreement with the Ministry of health, Ministry of industry and trade and other agencies in the working group under the Committee on health stopped literally the day before.
Expands the list of places where you can not continue will not only smoke tobacco, but also consume nikotinsoderzhaschie products and to use hookahs. To educational institutions, railway stations, transport, medical facilities, sanatoriums, playgrounds, beaches, workplaces, authorities, stores, public catering enterprises, elevators and entrances in apartment buildings are added “premises constituting common property of owners of rooms in communal flats”, i.e. kitchens, bathrooms and corridors. “With hookahs, wapama heaters and tobacco, too, will have to go to the Smoking room or the open air,” — said “MK” one of the authors of amendments to the bill Sergei Boyarsky (“ER”).
Nasvay (chewing tobacco) and snus (sucking tobacco) was actually banned for sale in Russia in 2015, and is now prohibited and chewy candy with salts of nicotine, lozenges and jellies with nicotine. Will increase penalties for the sale of Snykov and nasvay: with 2 to 4 thousand rubles for citizens, up to 15-20 thousand, and 40-60 thousand rubles for legal entities up to 150-300 thousand rubles. According to the head of the Duma Committee on state construction and legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov (United Russia) small fines did the violation of the ban “economically viable”, because profit at all.
New rules and restrictions will come into force not simultaneously. Electronic cigarettes and hookahs you can smoke in restaurants and bars is still three months from the date of publication of the law, and in the top��oriented points (in showrooms, for example) — for another six months. But the ban on Smoking in public places will work immediately with all the ensuing consequences. CaO long promises a fine from 500 to 1,500 rubles for Smoking in the wrong place, and for Smoking at playgrounds — from 2 to 3 thousand rubles. The same threatens and for Smoking e-cigarettes and hookah.
nikotinsoderzhaschie to Sell products in retail will have the same rules by which sell cigarettes in a closed display. The device for consumption nikotinsoderzhaschie product, as follows from the text of the law can be the eyes of the buyers not to remove.
will Immediately come into force and strict prohibitions on sales to minors not only tobacco products, but nikotinsoderzhaschie products and hookahs. For violation of this prohibition will be fined significantly stricter than now: 20-40 thousand rubles, and for legal entities, maximum fines will increase to 300 thousand rubles.
Speaking in explanation of vote, Vera Ganza (Communist party) said the law had taken so long because of “a protracted war with the nicotine lobby, which eventually won, in particular, permitted to use electronic cigarettes maximum amount of nicotine in the liquid not more than 20 mg.
Mr. Boyarsky, speaking on behalf of “ER” called the law the result of a “very fragile compromise.” However “off the ground, shifted a huge burden,” he said, referring to equating vaping systems and other new-fangled devices to cigarettes and a ban nikotinsoderzhaschie food products that have poisoned children. The time limit to 20 mg nicotine in the liquid is also not taken lightly, according to United Russia, “against first, was all, and the GPU (State legal Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation. — “MK”.), and the Ministry of industry and trade”. Meantime, he reminded that in Russia are liquids with a nicotine content of up to 60 mg.
