The Spanish government has approved a decree that bans the sale of flavoured heated tobacco products and requires packaging of heated tobacco products to carry health warnings, reports Medical Xpress.

Heated tobacco products (HTPs) heat tobacco leaves to release nicotine through a process called pyrolysis which heats the leaves but does not burn them.
The new decree has now banned flavoured HTPs and also the use of flavours in other tobacco products such as cigarette filters and rolling papers, reports Medical Xpress. Furthermore, unflavoured HTPs must now feature health warnings on the packaging just as other tobacco products do.
According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization one in four adults in Spain use tobacco daily which amounts to 26 per cent of the population. The global average lies at 22.3 per cent.