* All tobacco products must be stored out of sight in shops. Retailers that employ more than 50 people will have six months to comply, and other retailers will have twelve months from July 1, 2009;
* A negative licensing scheme will be introduced for tobacco retailers – meaning shops that sell cigarettes to children or breach the regulations in other ways may be stopped from selling tobacco;
* Cigarette vending machines will only be allowed in licensed venues restricted to over 18s, must be operated by staff intervention and will be subject to tobacco product display bans;
* Tobacco products will be removed from all shopper loyalty programs;
* Tobacco will be restricted to a single point of sale in all retail outlets;
* Smoking in cars with passengers under the age of 16 present will be banned and attract a $250 on-the-spot fine;
* Advertising tobacco products, selling tobacco products to minors and the sale of tobacco products without health warnings will be met with significantly increased fines.
* Advertising and tobacco promotion offences by corporations in particular, will now attract maximum fines of $660,000 for a first offence and $1.1 million for subsequent offences (previously this figure was $44,000).