Beginning the start of November, the Australian Government implemented changes to smoking legislation.

This is designed to improve public health by discouraging smoking and the use of smoking products, encourage people to give up smoking and stop using tobacco products, and to address the health risks of vaping and using e‑cigarettes.

The changes include:

• continues tobacco advertising bans including restricting sponsorships
• restricts the advertising and promotion of e‑cigarettes, including via sponsorships
• continues plain packaging requirements
• restricts the use of appealing brand and variant names
• regulates and in some cases prohibits attractive product features, such as crush balls and flavour beads
• standardises tobacco product pack size and cigarette stick sizes
• restricts ingredient additives that enhance the appeal of tobacco products
• updates and improves health warnings on tobacco product packaging
• mandates health promotion inserts that encourage and empower people to quit smoking
• mandates the disclosure of tobacco product ingredients, pricing and sales volumes, and advertising, promotion and sponsorship expenditure
• improves coverage, enforcement and compliance for tobacco control
• provides for a new Illicit Tobacco and E‑cigarette Commissioner within the Australian Border Force.