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Photograph: Hon. Dr Edwin G. Dikoloti, Minister of Health and Wellness, who was a strong advocate for the adoption of the new law. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Botswana).

The "Tobacco Control Act 2021" was passed by the National Assembly on 16 August 2021, and published in the official gazette of Botswana on 29 October 2021. This new Act repeals the Control of Smoking Act of 1992.

On 15 September 2021, the requirements for Mexico’s next round of pictorial health warnings were published in the Official Journal. Mexico requires a 30% picture warning on the front, a 100% text warning on the back, as well as a warning on a lateral side.

The German cabinet adopted the draft Tobacco Duty Modernisation Act on 10 August 2021 and was promulgated on 17 August 2021. With this legislation, the German Government is adapting tobacco duty to changes in the tobacco market and in consumer behaviour. Cigarette substitutes such as e-cigarettes (which were previously untaxed) and heated tobacco products (which were insufficiently taxed) will now be taxed appropriately. Another objective is to gradually adjust tobacco duty rates, as was also done in the past.

On 29 July 2021, the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic adopted the Law “On protecting the health of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic from the consequences of tobacco consumption, nicotine and exposure to second hand tobacco smoke and aerosol”. The primary aim of the Law is to implement the provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and, by doing so, to protect the health of its citizens.