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18 tobaccoasia FRONT PAGE NEWS 卷首新闻 NTRM? NDTP? SORT IT OUT ! Do you have Non Tobacco Related Material or Non Desired Tobacco Products in your tobacco product stream? Let us help you sort them out. Find out more on www.tomra.com/tobacco potential customers. A text-only price list, which must fulfil MOH's require- ments, may be shown, but only upon customers' request. The amended act extends existing restrictions on e-cigarettes to include newer varieties which do not necessarily bear a physical resemblance to cigarettes or other tobacco products. The compo- nent parts of such products will also be banned to prevent retailers from importing them and reassembling them locally for sale. Existing prohibitions on advertise- ments for tobacco products will also be extended to cover advertising for e-cigarettes and similar products. The ban on advertising for tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and similar products will also be extended to advertisements published electronically, MOH said. Advertisements and sales promo- tions originating from Singapore, whether targeting local or foreign audiences, and advertisements from outside Singapore which can be accessed by people in Singapore, will now be banned. Customer loyalty programs and promotional schemes involving tobacco products are also not allowed. A ban on emerging tobacco products first imposed in June last year will now be extended to include the likes of nasal snuff, oral snuff, and gutka. The grace period for importers and retailers on the ban on shisha – first imposed in November 2014 – also comes to an end. Existing licensed tobacco importers and retailers who import or sell shisha will be prohibited from importing, wholesaling, or retailing the product. New Zealand Smokefree Coalition No More At a Wellington ceremony tinged with sadness, members of the Smokefree Coalition recently gathered to com- memorate 20 years of fighting smoking in New Zealand while lamenting the loss of government funding that has forced it to close. The Smokefree Coalition is also willing to take much of the credit for the government's commitment to becoming a smokefree nation by 2025. "It was our original Vision 2020 document, produced with the help of our members, that got the ball rolling for that commitment and it was our Smokefree Roadmap 2025 that laid out the pathway to achieve it," chair Dr. Jan Pearson said. The government announced last year it would cease all existing contracts in tobacco control and the Smokefree Coalition contract was not renewed under the new funding strategy. Pearson does not believe this was the right decision but says it is time to pass the mantle to the organizations that remain.