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Information for Tobacco Retailers

Signage requirements
Retailers need to display a health warning or quit smoking sign, either at the premises entrance or next to where tobacco products are offered for sale
Retailers must not display signs outside their retail outlet advertising the sale of cheap or discount cigarettes.

Sales to minors
It is an offence to sell tobacco products to any person under the age of 18. It is the manager or proprietors responsibility to ensure all staff are educated and trained prior to allowing them to sell tobacco and that this message is reinforced every 6 months. Proof of age should be requested prior to sale.
Retailers must display a ‘We don’t sell tobacco to U18’s’ sign.
It is recommended that retailers display a ‘ no proof of age, no cigarettes poster’ displaying acceptable forms of ID.

A Victorian or interstate proof of age card
A Victorian or interstate drivers license
An Australian or foreign passport
A keypass

Advertising / tobacco display
Retailers cannot have any tobacco advertising within the retail outlet such as flags, posters, stickers, desk pads or backlit signs.

Retailers cannot display cartons at their retail outlet at all.

Single cigarettes or packets of less than 20 cigarettes are not permitted to be sold.

Retailers must display all dry tobacco products (cigarettes, roll your own tobacco, dry cigars) within a maximum display area of 4 square metres. This does not include cigars contained in humidors. Cigars in humidors are not included in the 4 square metres.
Retailers must only display front facings of tobacco products at one point of sale within the retail outlet.

Retailers can sell from more than one point of sale, provided the tobacco front facings of tobacco products at the second point of sale are covered up by price tickets (or are out of view). Similarly at a third or fourth point of sale tobacco products must be covered up by price tickets (or be out of view).

Retailers must ensure tobacco on display complies with product line definition. Tobacco can only be displayed if it differs from other products on the basis of:

Trademark;
Brand name;
Nicotine or tar content; or
Flavour.

Retailers can only display one of each kind (product line) of tobacco product. Different size packages are not treated as different product lines. Therefore retailers cannot display different sizes of cigarette packages with the same flavour, tar content, brand name or trademark.
For example, they cannot display Brand A, 25s, Menthol, 4mg as well as Brand A 30s, Menthol, 4mg. However, you can display each of Brand A, Menthol and Virginia, in 4mg, 8mg, 12mg or any other tar content.

Retailers can use price tickets to obscure different pack sizes of the same product line to provide the customer with product information. These price tickets can be as large as the largest tobacco product on display, with information about the tobacco products such as the price, brand, size, country of origin and product category information. The price tickets can be in up to four colours, provided these colours are used on other price tickets throughout the retail outlet.

Retailers can use price boards up to 1.5 metres by 1.5 metres in the retail outlet at point of sale. They can display an unlimited number of price boards within the premises. The price boards can contain information about tobacco products available for sale such as price, brand name, size and discount information.

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