Department of Health, Taipei City Government

The Executive Yuan is set to implement the amended Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act starting March 22, 2023 (excluding certain Articles). The key areas of the current amendments are as follow:

1.In effect starting March 22, 2023:

(1).No person shall manufacture, import, sell, provide, demonstrate, or advertise the following:

A.Tobacco-like products or its components.

B.Any specified tobacco products or its necessary components that have yet to be reviewed and approved by a health risk assessment.

(2).No person shall use tobacco-like products (e.g., E-cigarettes) or specified tobacco products that have yet to be reviewed and approved by a health risk assessment (e.g., heated tobacco products).

(3).Tobacco products shall not contain prohibited additives as announced by the central competent authority agency.

(4).Persons under the age of twenty and pregnant women shall not smoke. The parents, guardians, or other people actually in charge of the care of juveniles shall forbid said persons from smoking. 

(5).Smoking is completely prohibited in the following places: schools at all levels (including universities and colleges), kindergartens, daycare centers, family childcare service institutions, and places where the main purpose is for education or activities of children and youths. The use of tobacco-like products and specified tobacco products that have passed the central competent authority agency’s health risk assessment review are prohibited as well. 

(6).Smoking is completely prohibited in indoor areas of hotels, shopping malls, restaurants, pubs, nightclubs, or other business locations for public consumption (the use of tobacco-like products and specified tobacco products that have passed the central competent authority agency’s health risk assessment review are prohibited as well), with the exception of those locations equipped with separate indoor smoking partitions or cigar houses with independent air-conditioning systems.

2.In effect starting March 22, 2024:

Warning graphics on smoking as a health hazard and smoking-cessation related information shall be indicated in Chinese and conspicuously featured on the largest front side and reverse side of the tobacco product container; the indicated area shall not be less than 50% of the total area of such surface.