Luxembourg has recently banned e-cigarettes from public spaces in the same way as conventional smoking, and imposed tighter restrictions on smoking around children. Cigarettes and electronic cigarettes vaping are not to be used in sports arenas (ex. stadiums) where children below the age of 16 are performing sports, and the amendments also ban smoking in vehicles when children below the age of 12 are in the vehicle. Smoking or vaping in playing areas for children are not allowed. In addition, it is strictly prohibited to sell cigarettes and e-cigarettes to anyone below the age of 18.

The Parliament of Guyana passed the Tobacco Control Bill on 27 July and made a big step forward fighting the devastating effects of tobacco and implementing policies in accordance with the WHO FCTC. As Honorable Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, said the bill focuses on saving lives and ensuring that “healthy labour force and productivity is at its highest and no family has to lose a member from a preventative illness.”

Hungary is now officially the 5th Party to implement plain packaging, as an advanced measure under Article 11 of the Convention.

From 20 August 2016 all cigarette packages need to carry pictorial health warnings of 65% of the front and back of packages. The Decree 239/2016 (of 16 August 2016) of the Hungarian Government also requires that new cigarette and roll-your-own tobacco brands that will be introduced on the Hungarian market after 20 August 2016 has to be in a uniform plain packaging, void of brand logos.

The Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria launched a national tobacco-free campaign that is set to last from June to December 2017. The campaign is an example of the efforts of Nigeria to strengthen implementation of its obligations under Article 12 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), that Nigeria ratified in October 2005.