Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act Article 9

The tobacco products, their brand names and containers shall not use or be labeled with expressions such as light, low tar, or any other misleading words and marks implicating that smoking has no harmful effects, or only has minor harmful effects on health, except for the brand names used before the implementation of the amendment of January 11, 2009.The tobacco products containers shall, at a conspicuous place on the largest front and back outside surfaces, be labeled with, in Chinese, health warning texts and images describing the harmful effects of tobacco use, as well as relevant information on quitting smoking. The area occupied by such texts and images shall not be less than 50% of each labeling surface.The regulations governing the methods, contents, places of labeling, and other requirements related to the warning texts and images and information on quitting smoking prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.