In 2019-2030, the Ministry of Health plans to reduce the number of smokers to 5%, and after 2050 tobacco products to withdraw from the market. The Ministry of Health has decided not to ban the production, entry and trafficking of non-smoking tobacco products, but to reduce their availability. Earlier, the agency proposed to increase the selling age from 18 to 21 years already from 2020 and reported that the majority of Russians approved this initiative. The concept of tobacco control, implying these measures, has already been introduced in the government, its author, Oleg Salagai, said that all the main acts should be developed by December 2019. At the same time, in the updated version of th... [Read more]