Over the past decade, e-cigarettes have grown rapidly, becoming the most popular consumer tobacco product category and the most common cigarette replacement product. But as it grew in popularity, came a troublesome group of clients — curious minors. Regulators and lawmakers have used a variety of strategies to keep teens away from vaping products, by far the most common being to regulate the age at which vaping products can be purchased.

As with alcohol, imposing a minimum age for sale of e-cigarettes is not a perfect solution, but it is the surest way to reduce teen vaping.

Legal age for e-cigarettes around the world

With the exception of countries that ban vaping and countries without vaping regulations, most countries simply use the legal age of majority to set the minimum age for purchasing vaping products.

Some countries have a national legal age, but allow states or provinces to set a higher legal age. For example, the national legal age for e-cigarettes in Canada is 18, but many provinces and territories set 19 as the allowable age for purchasing vaping products.

In Australia, it is illegal to sell nicotine-containing consumer products (other than cigarettes) without a doctor’s prescription, but non-nicotine e-cigarettes are allowed, and the age of purchase varies by state.

In the world’s largest e-cigarette market, the United States, the legal age for e-cigarette use is 21.

Countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 18:

Belgium

Bhutan

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Denmark

Ecuador

England

salvador

Estonia

Fiji

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Israel

Italy

ivory coast

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Maldives

Malta

Moldova

Netherlands

new Zealand

Norway

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Poland

Portugal

San Marino

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Senegal

Slovenia

South Africa

Sweden

Tajikistan

togo

Tuvalu

Ukraine

Vietnam

Wales

Countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 19:

Jordan

South Korea

Turkey

Countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 20:

Japan

Countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 21:

Ethiopia

Guam

Honduras

Niue

Republic of Palau

the Philippines

U.S.

Contact: Judy He

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