Smoking in Mexico
Mexico regulates tobacco products including cigarettes under a legal framework that permits their sale and use but restricts certain practices. Based on these regulations, purchasing cigarettes from vending machines or online is illegal. Health warnings on packaging are mandatory and the minimum legal age for sales is 18 years. There are also restrictions on smoking in public places. Mexico has implemented a ban on all tobacco advertising. The total taxation rate on tobacco products is 67.59% including a specific excise tax of 15.55%. In 2024, an estimated 15.2 million adult individuals were reported as current smokers. This shows that the current prevalence of tobacco smoking among adults was 15.4%, including 23.9% among males and 7.6% among females. In 2021, daily smoking rates indicated that 6.9 million Mexicans smoke daily which represented 8.6% of the adult population. Data from the same year show that the prevalence of daily smoking was 13.2% among men and 4.4% among women. Tobacco-related mortality is also high in Mexico. Statistics from 2021 show that 39,500 deaths were attributable to tobacco smoking. Among them, 30,000 were men and 9,600 were women. In In 2021, tobacco smoking accounted for 3.54% of all deaths, with higher mortality rates among males (4.64%) compared to females (2.04%).
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October 08, 2019 by marijuanamoment.net
Mexican Senate Leader Says Marijuana Will Be Legalized This Month
The Senate leader of Mexico’s ruling party said that the lawmakers will vote on a bill to legalize marijuana for adult use by the end of the month. [...] “We’re thinking that we’ll bring the law out, approve it, at the end of October,” Monreal said. “That’s the schedule we have.”
That would mean that lawmakers are expecting to meet a Supreme Court deadline to end federal cannabis prohibition. Last year, the court ruled that the country’s ban on personal possession, use and cultivation of marijuana was unconstitutional and said the government must formally legalize [...]
November 20, 2018 by nmpoliticalreport.com
Time to take action in New Mexico to halt youth smoking and vaping
The Albuquerque Journal reported [...] that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration issued warnings to 22 New Mexico businesses and fined one of them this past summer for selling electronic cigarettes to minors. It is of course illegal to sell e-cigarettes and tobacco to people younger than 18. Since the perpetrators include some of the nation’s largest mainstream retailers and convenience stores [...] it should illustrate to policy makers and citizens alike why tough, urgent action is needed at the state and local level.
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