Rules for Tobacco Advertising

Federal Law “On Advertising”

(passed March 13, 2006)

Article 23. Advertising of Tobacco, Tobacco Products and Smoking Paraphernalia

1. Advertising for tobacco...should not:

i. contain assertions that smoking is a significant contributor to social acceptance, professional, sporting or personal success or that it improves one’s physical or emotional well-being;

ii. condemn abstention from smoking;

iii. be aimed at minors;

iv. use images of minors.

2. Tobacco advertising... should not be placed:

i. in television or radio programs, in films or videos;

ii. in printed publications, audios or videos aimed at minors;

iii. on the first or last pages of newspapers... or magazines;

iv. ...on fixed stands... mounted on roofs or outside walls and other construction elements of buildings, construction... {this point came into effect only as of January 1, 2007};

v. on any form of public transportation;

vi. in, and no closer than 100 meters from buildings and facilities for children, education, hospitals, sanitaria, military organizations, theaters, circuses, museums, houses of culture, concert and exhibition halls, libraries, lecture halls, planetaria....

3. Tobacco advertising... must always include a warning of the harms of smoking, and such warning should occupy no less than 10 percent of the advertising space.