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.

On 19 February 2020 Mexico banned the importation of electronic cigarettes, with or without nicotine, and heated tobacco products through a Presidential Decree.

The Decree, published in the Federal Official Gazette (DOF), covers a need for harmonization in the regulatory framework in order to prevent illegal trade of these products, according to the official press release.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey has adopted on 30 June 2021 an amendment to the regulation of manufacturing and labeling of tobacco products, requiring the increase in the size of the pictorial health warnings of cigarette packs.

The Danish Parliament has adopted in December 2020 an amendment to the Tobacco Act - the main source of law regulating tobacco products - establishing a requirement to ensure that “each unit pack and any outer packaging [of tobacco products] has a standardized design”. This requirement does not apply to cigars and pipe tobacco.