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Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Find out if you need to pay Tobacco Products Duty if you make or import tobacco, how much it is and when you can suspend or defer payment.
Consumer advice and details of how to report problems with e-cigarettes with guidance on how to place an e-cigarette on the market in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including the notification scheme.
Check what security features you’ll need put on tobacco product packaging.
Evidence on the impact of e-cigarettes, information on government policy and regulation, and guidance for organisations on vaping policies.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Guidelines explaining the advertising restrictions on e-cigarettes and re-fill containers required by UK law.
Registration for the supply of tobacco products and e-cigarettes to consumers in the UK and European Economic Area.
Create an account with the UK ID issuer for business or product IDs if you're involved in the supply of tobacco products in the UK.
Advice to inform evidence-based policy making.
An expert review of the latest evidence concludes that e-cigarettes are around 95% safer than smoked tobacco and they can help smokers to quit.
What you need to do if you sell or store tobacco products in the UK.
This document contains the following information: Report on the supply of cigarettes and tobacco and of cigarette and tobacco machinery
Government to introduce historic new law to protect future generations of young people from the harms of smoking.
Find out how you can import tobacco products into the UK from countries inside and outside the EU.
What you need to do if you transport or transload tobacco products in the UK.
Information on the legal changes that came into force on 1 October 2015 about tobacco, e-cigarettes and smoking in cars.
Government seeks views on adding pack inserts to tobacco products to encourage smokers to quit.
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