The cornerstone of the Slovak tobacco regulation – the Act on the Production, Labelling and Sale of Tobacco and Other Related Products – takes a stringent approach to heated tobacco products (HTPs), making them equivalent to conventional tobacco products with respect to product, labelling and notification requirements.
Heated tobacco is defined as a smokeless tobacco product or tobacco product for smoking from which, upon heating, emissions containing nicotine and other chemicals are released, which are subsequently inhaled by the user, and belongs to a new category of tobacco products
This report covers the legal framework for heated tobacco and herbal heated products in Slovakia covering all policy areas from to taxation and advertising to market access and packaging.
