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Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Changes to age of sale rules and related regulations for tobacco and herbal smoking products and cigarette papers from 29 October 2026 and 1 January 2027.
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.
Find out how you can import tobacco products into the UK from countries inside and outside the EU.
Information about changes to fixed penalty notices for offences related to tobacco, vaping and nicotine products from 29 October 2026 and 1 January 2027.
Guidance, policy and regulation on tobacco, vaping and nicotine products, including the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026.
Information relating to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 5 November 2024.
New restrictions on vending machines selling tobacco, herbal smoking products and cigarette papers, and vaping and nicotine products from 29 October 2026.
Correspondence between the tobacco industry and the Department of Health and Social Care, published under Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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