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Tobacco (Health Promotion and Protection) Act, 1988
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Prohibition on import etc. of oral smokeless tobacco products.

6.—(1) Any person who imports, manufactures, sells or otherwise disposes of, or offers for sale or other disposal, or advertises, an oral smokeless tobacco product shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,000, or

(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding £10,000.

(2) In this section “oral smokeless tobacco product” means any product or substance, made wholly or partly from tobacco, which is intended for use, unlit, by being placed in the mouth and kept there for a period, or by being placed in the mouth and sucked or chewed.