New Swiss tobacco law protects children nationwide

A new federal law comes into force across Switzerland on October 1, obliging all cantons to restrict the sale of tobacco products to adults. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The new Tobacco Products Act ends the cantonal patchwork of rules on selling cigarettes, snuff, e-cigarettes and other tobacco linked products. + Switzerland: the land of the tobacco industry Until now, children have been able to buy cigarettes in the cantons of Schwyz and Appenzell Innerrhoden as there was no legal age of consent. Meanwhile, in other cantons, potential buyers had to be 16 or 18 years old. Now everyone has to be of legal age to buy tobacco products. The new federal law also restricts advertising. Tobacco advertisements are no longer permitted on public property, and on private property only if they cannot be seen from public property. Events aimed at minors are no longer permitted to have tobacco sponsors. Free promotional gifts related to tobacco consumption are ...