Morocco Sets 2024 Deadline for Cigarettes to Meet International Health Standards

In its desire to definitively regulate the tobacco market, the government had approved in September a draft decree setting the maximum levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes.

This new system instituting the 10-1-10 tobacco standard (10 mg of tar, 1 mg of nicotine and 10 mg of carbon monoxide) has just been published, according to a circular from the customs administration, adding that it has been tasked with conducting analyzes to check the compliance of cigarettes with specialized laboratories.

Non-compliant products already distributed to retailers will have to be recovered by the operators and destroyed at their expense, the note specifies.