Themes
Conventional Products
Cigarettes, cigarillos and cigars as well as pipe and fine cut tobacco are among the traditional smoking tobacco products in Germany, but smokeless products such as snuff and traditional chewing tobacco also have a long tradition in this country. MORE ...
Next Generation Products
The tobacco and nicotine industry is currently going through a major transitional phase. Increasing public health awareness, new social attitudes and the rapid development of new technologies have ensured that, in addition to the traditional tobacco products, there is now a large selection of new products, so-called Next Generation Products. MORE ...
Tobacco market Data
Information on sales of tobacco products and smuggling. MORE ...
Ingredients
Ingredients are all substances or components that are part of a finished product: the tobacco, additives and flavourings. MORE ...
Protection of Minors
Children and adolescents are not in a position to correctly assess the risks of smoking. Smoking is rightly forbidden in Germany for young people under the age of 18. The BVTE supports the campaign "Tobacco products | E-cigarettes only from 18". MORE ...
Non-Smoker Protection
Since September 2007 there has been a nationwide smoking ban in all public institutions and means of transport. MORE ...
Regulations (national/international)
At both national and international level, numerous regulations and laws regulate everything related to tobacco products and next generation products. MORE ...
Risk Reduction
Tobacco Harm Reduction is about the potential reduction of health risks of tobacco use by providing potentially less harmful products. MORE ...
Sustainability
Responsible management of natural resources, climate change and social inequality are a global challenge, including for the tobacco industry. MORE ...
Tobacco tax
is an excise duty levied by the customs administration and paid into the federal budget. MORE ...
Environmental Protection
On 21 May 2019 the EU Directive on the reduction of pollution caused by single use plastics (SUP) was adopted in Brussels and from time to time a deposit system for cigarette butts is discussed. But does this really make sense? MORE ...
Advertising
The health policy effectiveness of further advertising bans is highly doubtful. However, it is undisputed that an absolute advertising ban on tobacco products is a fundamental regulatory decision. MORE ...
