Tobacco sales are reported to have slumped as much as 40 percent this year as anti-smoking campaigns intensify in the city and the industry is bracing for another bleak year in 2013 with an expected 10 percent decline as a new regulation requiring a larger space of health warning on cigarette boxes is taking effect from the beginning of next month. Industry players are being warned of possible layoffs in some companies.
The new law requires all cigarette packages to reserve at least 50 percent of their spaces for warning slogans or pictures provided by the Health Bureau on the possible risks caused by smoking. Starting from the 1st of January, retailers selling cigarettes that fail to comply with the new rules will face a MOP 2,000 penalty. In the newspaper stalls where cigarettes are also sold, some operators said they didn’t know much about the details of the new rules and fine, they blamed the government for insufficient publicity on the issue.
Some dealers also said producers could not change the old packages by this year and some cigarettes might have to be recalled next month for re-packaging. The retail sector would suffer losses as much as hundreds of thousands of patacas for those cigarettes that can’t be returned to producers for re-packaging, according to Macau Daily Times.
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