LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of December 18, 2013 No. 460-IV

About protection of public health from impact of tobacco smoke and effects of consumption of tobacco products

This Law determines the principles of state policy in the field of protection of public health from impact of tobacco smoke and effects of consumption of tobacco products, governs the relations arising during the importing, realization and consumption of tobacco products in Turkmenistan.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) tobacco - sort one - and the long-term herbs and bushes containing nicotine and others the unhealthy substances of the person cultivated for the purpose of receipt of raw materials (tobacco raw materials) for tobacco products manufacture;

2) tobacco products are the products fully or partially made of enzymatic tobacco (sheet) and (or) rustic tobacco, with addition or without addition of sauces and (or) fragrances, intended for smoking (smoking tobacco products), suction, chewing, shuffing (not smoking tobacco products) and (or) different ways of consumption of tobacco products;

3) tobacco smoke - the smoke containing in atmospheric air in the place where smoking of tobacco products is performed or performed;

4) effects of consumption of tobacco products - damnification (harm) of life or to health of the person, the circle of its dwelling owing to consumption of tobacco products and impact of tobacco smoke, and also the medical, demographic, social and economic effects connected with it;

5) the tobacco organizations (industry) - the legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who are engaged in production, wholesale distribution and import of tobacco products;

6) turnover - wholesale and retail trade by tobacco raw materials and (or) tobacco products, and also their storage, import and export;

7) excise stamp - the brand having protection elements, applied on each unit of tobacco product according to the legislation of Turkmenistan confirmatory that the marked tobacco products have legal origin;

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