Cigarettes and Tobacco Products

Under the law, tobacco products refer to¹ products like:

• Cigarettes
• Cigars
• Cheroots (a cigar which is open on both ends)
• Beedis
• Chewing Tobacco
• Snuff
• Cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco
• Pan masala
• Gutka
• Tooth Powder containing Tobacco

A cigarette is a roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any other material. However, under the law beedis, cheroots and cigars are tobacco products, not cigarettes².

Indian law, governs the production, sale, distribution, consumption of advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products. For example, smoking in a public place is not allowed, as is sale to a minor person and advertisement of tobacco products.

1. Schedule I, the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003.[↩][↩]
2. Section 3(b), the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003.[↩][↩]