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6: Distributing or selling tobacco products in forms of individual sticks, loose packs, or sheathed (4/169, 2%). Item 8: Using tea parties, meal parties, information meetings, tasting events, concerts, lectures, sports, or public interest events, or other similar methods to conduct promotion or advertising (8/169, 5%). Based on further analysis of the health bureaus of counties and cities, in view of the conditions of penalties for violated tobacco advertisements and promotions issued in the last 9 years, the number of penalty cases of 60 (37%) in Taichung is of the highest percentage, next is 37 cases for Taipei City, 23 cases for New Taipei City, 17 cases for Kaohsiung City, 9 cases for Tainan City, 5 cases for Nantou County and Miaoli County, 3 cases for Yilan County ,2 cases for Taoyuan City,Kinmen County, Keelung City respectively 1 case , Changhua county ,Chiayi County ,Pingtung County and Hualien Countyrespectively 1 case. Sonsorship provisions were detected between 2009 and 2018 through active investigations of health bureaus of all cities and counties: Promotion of tobacco products in night clubs and advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of tobacco products on tobacco packages in Taipei City (total fine of 80.505 million NTD; advertising and promotion of tobacco products on tobacco packages in Miaoli County (total fine of 22.9 million NTD); advertising and promotion of tobacco products on tobacco packages in Taichung City (total fine of 51.06 million NTD); free picture cards and sponsorship of tobacco products in Kaohsiung City (total fine of 11.79 million NTD); advertising and promotion of tobacco products in Ilan County (total fine of 15 million NTD); introduction of smoke-free tobacco products (soluble nicotine tablets) on leaflets in Keelung City (total fines of 5.1 million NTD), and advertising and promotion of tobacco products on tobacco packages in Changhua County (total fines of 5 million NTD). Fines incurred for violations of the provisions set forth in Article 9 amounted to a total of 268.79185 million NTD. (Table 2-1) Table 2-1 Tobacco advertisement and promotion violations and penalties (in NTD) issued in Taiwan from 2009 to 2018 Country/City Citations Fine(NT$) Taichung City 60 51,060,000 Taipei City 37 80,505,000 New Taipei City 23 75,526,850 Kaohsiung City 17 11,790,000 Tainan City 9 820,000 Nantou County 5 490,000 Miaoli County 5 22,900,000 Yilan County 3 15,000,000 Taoyuan City 2 150,000 Kinmen County 2 150,000 Keelung City 2 5,100,000 Changhua County 1 5,000,000 Chiayi City 1 100,000 Pingtung County 1 100,000 Hualien County 1 100,000 Total 169 268,791,850 88