Russia

“Systems for the use of nicotine-containing products” mean electronic or other devices which are used to generate a nicotine-containing aerosol or steam, inhaled by the user, including electronic systems of nicotine delivery and systems for heating tobacco (with the exclusion of medicinal products and medications, registered in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation).”

For the purpose of this review, we will be using the term “e-cigarette” when referring to “systems for the use of nicotine-containing products”.

“Nicotine-containing products” mean products which contain nicotine (including those derived by synthesis) or its derivatives, including nicotine salts, intended for nicotine use and its delivery by means of sucking, chewing, snorting or inhalation, including products with heated tobacco, solutions, liquids or gels with liquid nicotine content in a volume of no less than 0.1 mg/mL, a nicotine-containing liquid, powders, mixtures for sucking, chewing, 10 snorting, and not intended for use as food (with the exception of medicinal products and medications registered in accordance with the law of the Russian Federation, a food product containing nicotine in its natural form, and tobacco products).

For the purpose of this review, we will be using the term “e-cigarette” when referring to “nicotine-containing products”.

“Nicotine-containing liquid” means any liquid containing nicotine in a volume no less than 0.1 mg/mL, as well as a liquid without nicotine content or with its minimal content less than 0.1 mg/mL, intended for use in systems for the heating of a nicotine-containing product, including in electronic nicotine delivery systems.

For the purpose of this review, we will be using the term “nicotine liquid” when referring to “nicotine-containing liquids.”

“Consequences of tobacco consumption or of the use of nicotine-containing products” mean the cause of harm to the life or health of man, harm to his living environment as a result of tobacco consumption or the consumption of nicotine-containing products, the impact of second-hand smoke as a result of the smoking of tobacco or substances emitted in the use of nicotine-containing products, as well as the related medical, demographic, [and] socioeconomic consequences.

“Use of nicotine-containing products” means the sucking, chewing, snorting of nicotine-containing products or the inhalation of nicotine-containing aerosol or steam resulting from their heating with the use of systems for consumption of nicotine-containing products.

“Tobacco organizations” mean corporations, regardless of organization or legal form, that engage in the production of moving tobacco products or nicotine-containing products across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Alliance (hereinafter – Alliance), or across the state border of the Russian Federation with the member states of the Alliance, or organizations recognized as affiliates of these corporations in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, branch and dependent organizations, the amalgamation of such entities, as well as the organizations created by such entities. For the purposes of the herein Federal Law, individual entrepreneurs engaging in the production of moving tobacco products or nicotine-containing products across the customs border of the Alliance or across the state border of the Russian Federation with the member states of the Alliance are equivalent to tobacco organizations.