This section provides information about the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990 and how it regulates smoked tobacco products in New Zealand and what that means for retailers, manufacturers, importers and distributors of smoked tobacco products.
Latest updates
21 September 2023
- Update on the smoked tobacco retail scheme. We are experiencing some technical difficulties with part of the HARP application site which we are working to fix as a priority. In the meantime any prospective applicants can still start the application process and read the detailed guides available at Approved Smoked Tobacco Retailer Application Process. We will provide an update on the smoked tobacco premises application early next week.
20 September 2023
15 September 2023
24 August 2023
- New vaping and smoked tobacco regulations have been notified in the NZ Gazette.
- View the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act page for more information.
Make a complaint
If your complaint is about tobacco sales to under 18s or smoking in a workplace, then contact your local Public Health Service
If you have a complaint about a smoked tobacco product, then you can let the Tobacco Regulatory Authority (TRA) know through the complaints form in the HARP portal.