烟草在线据墨尔本《太阳先驱报》报道编译　　超市将有三个月的时间来清空品牌卷烟的库存，否则根据新的平装法将面临高达110万澳元的罚款。

　　并且在9月8日下周六，卷烟的免税限额将从250支减至50支。

　　根据新的平装法规，个体销售不符合法规包装的卷烟将处以1320澳元至22万澳元的罚款。

　　公司将面临6600澳元至110万澳元的罚款。

　　四年的制裁将为政府节省6亿澳元，因为旅行者在国内购买烟草产品。

　　在高级法院最近成功维护了平装法后，卫生部门将于本周（8.26-9.1）向烟草销售商发出3.5万份平装通知以提醒他们开始处理库存。

　　平装法要求卷烟和烟草制品从12月1日实行以健康警语覆盖75%正面的浅褐色包装出售。

　　“从现在开始你们应该开始注意你们持有和购买的印有老健康警语的非平装卷烟的数量，”平装法通知上写道。

　　卷烟制造商将被要求从10月1日开始以新平装包装产品。

　　卫生部长发言人谭雅·普莉贝丝称，这使零售商在截止到12月1日之前有足够的时间销售老包装的卷烟并且储存新平装卷烟。

　　新的平装法将适用于运输卷烟至商店的普通包装纸箱以及散装卷烟的包装袋。澳大利亚财长韦恩·斯旺称，“继续实行大箱卷烟的减税政策，这是不公平的。”

　　首先，单支雪茄将必需印有健康警语。

　　“从12月1日起，当吸烟者拿出一盒卷烟，烟盒将不再是一个移动的广告牌了，”普莉贝丝女士的发言人称。

　　堪培拉将出资300万澳元，通过临时检查、电话联系和网络监管平装法的实施。

Australia: Plain Cigarette Packs Whack

　　SUPERMARKETS will have three months to clear their stocks of branded cigarette packs or face penalties of up to $1.1 million in the new plain packaging rules.

　　And next Saturday, the duty-free limit on cigarettes will be slashed from 250 to 50.

　　Under the new rules, individuals selling tobacco in non-compliant packaging face fines of $1320 to $220,000. A corporation risks penalties of $6600 to $1.1 million.

　　The crackdown will save the Government $600 million over four years, as travellers, instead, buy their tobacco fix at home.

　　After a recent High Court victory upholding the plain-packaging rules, the Health Department will this week send 35,000 information packages to tobacco sellers warning them to start clearing their stock.

　　Regulations requiring cigarettes and tobacco products to be sold in drab brown packaging, including health warnings covering 75 per cent of the front of the pack, apply from December 1.

　　"You are encouraged to think carefully about the quantity of non-plain packaged product with the old health warnings you hold and purchase from now on," the information packs warn.

　　Cigarette manufacturers will be required to make products with the new plain packaging on October 1.

　　This would give retailers enough time to sell the old packets and stock plain packs by December 1, a spokesman for Health Minister Tanya Plibersek said.

　　The new plain packaging rules will apply to cartons used to transport cigarettes to shops as well as pouches of loose tobacco. Treasurer Wayne Swan said: "It's simply not fair to continue to subsidise big tax breaks for cartons of cigarettes."

　　For the first time, individual cigars will have to carry health warnings.

　　"From December 1, when a smoker pulls out a packet of cigarettes, that packet will no longer be a mobile billboard," a spokesman for Ms Plibersek said.

　　Canberra will spend $3 million policing the laws, including snap inspections, a telephone contact and website. Enditem