The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), in reference to the Excise Duty Act 2016 and the “Excise Duty (Excisable Goods Management System) Regulations, 2017”, calls upon manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of any type of tobacco product to register with KRA and apply for excise stamps to affix on all tobacco products packages, including electronic cigarettes and cartridges, cigars, cigarillos, chewing tobacco, shisha and other manufactured tobacco and tobacco substitutes.

After seven years of planning and intense work of the Ministry of Health, the National Assembly of Benin has unanimously adopted, on 14 September 2017, a new tobacco control law that will regulate production, processing, packaging, sale and use of all tobacco products and its derivatives.