Honduras

The law does not provide for tobacco industry disclosure to the government. Because all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship are not comprehensively banned, the law should require disclosure to the government of information on, at a minimum, tobacco industry advertising, promotion and sponsorship activities and expenditures. FCTC Art. 13 Guidelines para. 43 provides that although the requirement for this kind of disclosure applies only to Parties that do not have a comprehensive ban, all Parties should implement the disclosure requirement in that it may help Parties that consider that they have a comprehensive ban to identify any advertising, promotion or sponsorship not covered by the ban or engaged in by the tobacco industry in contravention of the ban. Thus, to align with the FCTC Art. 13 Guidelines, the law should require disclosure of activities and expenditures on advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

The law only requires health warnings and messages to be on tobacco product packaging and labeling. To align with FCTC Art. 13 and its Guidelines, warnings and messages should also be required for any forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship not yet banned.

The law does not require the tobacco industry to disclose to the government information on advertising, promotion and sponsorship activities and expenditures. In addition to requiring tobacco companies to report on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and expenditures, etc., information from these reports should be readily available to the public. As provided in FCTC Art. 13 Guidelines paras. 41 through 44, these reports and public access to the information should be required even if a Party believes it has a comprehensive tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship ban.