Tobacco Smoking (Control) Act

Arrangement of Sections

3. of individuals or any other body corporate shall sponsor or pro mole any of their products

4. sell any tobacco product in Nigeria unless the amount of the tar and nicotine contents of

5. N200 and not exceeding N 1,000 or to imprisonment to a term of not less than one month

6. ance.

7. “ tobacco” includes manufactured and unmanufactured tobacco of every description

An Act to provide for the control of smoking in certain places and advertisement of

tobacco in Nigeria.

[1990 No. 20.]

[1 st October, 1990; 1 st June, 1990]

[Commencement. S.1. 7 of 1990. S.1. 18 of 1990.]

Control of tobacco smoking

No person shall, as horn the commencement of this Act, smoke tobacco in the places

specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

[First Schedule.]

Restriction on tobacco smoking advertisement

public in a bid to encourage tobacco smoking through any of the means specified in the

Second Schedule to this Act unless the advertisement contains a warning that tobacco

smoking is dangerous to health.

[Second Schedule.]

of individuals or any other body corporate shall sponsor or pro mole any of their products

at any sports event sponsored or promoted by them.

of individuals or any other body corporate shall sponsor or pro mole any of their products

3. Tobacco packages to contain certain information

smoking shall be sold in Nigeria, unless the following rotating warnings are inscribed on

the package, that is-

health”; and

sell any tobacco product in Nigeria unless the amount of the tar and nicotine contents of

each unit of the product is stated on the package.

sell any tobacco product in Nigeria unless the amount of the tar and nicotine contents of

4. Penalties for smoking, etc., in prohibited areas