TOBACCO PRODUCTS CONTROL ACT 83 OF 1993 [ASSENTED TO 23 JUNE 1993] [DATE OF COMMENCEMENT: 1 FEBRUARY 1994] (English text signed by the State President) as amended by General Law Fifth Amendment Act 157 of 1993 Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act 12 of 1999 Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act 23 of 2007 Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act 63 of 2008 Regulations under this Act LABELLING, ADVERTISING AND SALE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE YIELD OF TAR, NICOTINE AND OTHER CONSTITUENTS IN TOBACCO PRODUCTS POINT OF SALE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS REGULATIONS RELATING TO PROVISION FOR EXEMPTION FOR UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND THE PHASING OUT OF EXISTING SPONSORSHIP OR CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS SMOKING OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN PUBLIC PLACES ACT To prohibit or restrict smoking in public places; to regulate the sale and advertising of tobacco products in certain respects and to prescribe what is to be reflected on packages; and to provide for matters connected therewith. Preamble ACKNOWLEDGING that tobacco use• is extremely injurious to the health of smokers, non-smokers and other users of tobacco products; • has caused widespread addiction in society; • warrants, in the public interest, a restrictive legislation; REALISING that the association of the use of tobacco products with social success, business advancement and sporting prowess through advertising and promotion may have the particularly harmful effect of encouraging children and young people to use tobacco products; CONSIDERING that the extent of the harmful effects of the use of tobacco products on health calls for strong action to deter people, especially the youth, from using tobacco products, to protect non- smokers from exposure to tobacco smoke and to encourage existing users of tobacco products to quit; and RESOLVING to align the health system with the democratic values of the Constitution and the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and to enhance and protect the fundamental rights of citizens by discouraging the use, promotion and advertising of tobacco products in order to reduce the incidence of tobacco-related illness and death; BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-