Muscat: Advertising for tobacco products now stands banned in Oman, according to a new law passed by the Ministry of Information. Get your essential daily briefing delivered direct to your email inbox with our e-newsletter All radio stations, TV channels, newspapers and online publishing houses in the Sultanate are now prohibited from advertising any form of tobacco products. The circular, issued on April 5, 2016, was released as per the press and publications law issued by the Royal Decree No.49/84 and the Royal Decree No.20/2005 on agreeing to join the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. An official at the Ministry of Information told the Time... [Read more]