Any natural or legal person, with legal capacity to exercise commerce, may carry out the activities of manufacturing, importing and wholesale commercialisation of manufactured tobacco products, whatever their origin. The retail sale and supply of tobacco products is a state monopoly and may only be carried out in the tobacco and stamp vendors network or through vending machines, located in establishments that have the appropriate administrative authorisations, for sale through machines, and is expressly prohibited in any other place or medium. Specific restrictions to advertisement apply to tobacco products. 