Legality
Nicotine legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of Nicotine has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Nicotine in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaNicotine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and this Act does not reach it at all. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral....
- ArgentinaNot scheduled as an estupefaciente. Every one of the 886 numbered rows of the current Anexo I was searched by...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through tobacco and nicotine-product legislation rather than through the narcotics annex,...
- AustraliaPrescription only medicine for human use, with a pharmacist tier for therapeutic vapes and a poison schedule...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and regulated as a consumer product instead. Nicotine is governed by the...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. Nicotine is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BangladeshNicotine is not a narcotic under this Act and the narcotics regime does not reach it. The only place nicotine...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados...
- BelarusNicotine is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route...
- BelgiumNicotine is not reached by the Belgian controlled drug lists on the text checked here. The search found no...
- BhutanNicotine in Bhutan is regulated principally through tobacco: nicotine-delivering tobacco products were...
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaNot a controlled drug under the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Nicotine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CambodiaNicotine is legal in Cambodia in combustible tobacco and in nicotine-replacement therapy, but the nicotine...
- CanadaNot a controlled drug. Nicotine is not named in any schedule of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for nicotina or nicotine as at 27...
- Costa RicaNot handled through the drug control model. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes...
- CroatiaNicotine is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari...
- CubaNot controlled in Cuba as an illicit drug. Nicotine is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235...
- CzechiaNot listed. Nicotine is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb....
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- DominicaNicotine is not a controlled drug under this Act. It is printed nowhere in Parts I, II or III, read in full...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Nicotine has no entry in any Categoría. Tobacco is regulated in the Dominican Republic as a...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Nicotine is not...
- EstoniaNicotine is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Nicotine is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceNicotine is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaNicotine is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records...
- GermanyNicotine is outside the German narcotics lists and is regulated by product legislation instead. The search...
- GhanaNicotine is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is in no...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Nicotine is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- GuyanaNot assigned a controlled drug offence in Guyana. The scope search recorded for this row against the First...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Nicotine, searched also as...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Controlled as a medicine under the...
- HungaryNot listed. Nicotine is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Nicotine is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched as...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranControlled as a constituent of tobacco product rather than under its own name. The Comprehensive National...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. The only matches for the letters nicotin in the schedules are nicocodine...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JamaicaNicotine is not among the drugs to which Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act applies. The scope search...
- JapanNicotine is not a controlled substance in Japan and is not governed by drug law at all. As an ingredient of...
- JordanNicotine is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that...
- KazakhstanNicotine is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row....
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. Nicotine is in no annexed table of Decree Law...
- LatviaNicotine is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaNicotine is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Nicotine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaNicotine is a poison under the Poisons Act 1952, listed in the Poisons List by name with «All preparations»...
- MaldivesNicotine is legal in the Maldives in combustible tobacco (though a generational tobacco ban applies from...
- MaltaNeither Maltese drug ordinance governs nicotine. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from...
- MexicoNicotine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Nicotine, searched as...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o...
- MoroccoControlled as a produit toxique and not as a narcotic. The dahir of 2 December 1922 on substances vénéneuses...
- MyanmarOutside the reach of Myanmar's narcotics law. Nicotine is not named in Notification 24/2025 or Notification...
- NetherlandsNicotine is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such, and the...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Nicotine, the...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for никотин, and the instrument...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Nicotine is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by...
- OmanNot a controlled substance under the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal...
- PakistanNot a controlled substance in Pakistan's narcotics law. Nicotine is named nowhere in the Act, the Rules 2001...
- PanamaNicotine is not placed inside Panama's drug chapter. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025 and no entry...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: nicotine is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. A search of all three annexes returned only nicotinoyl esters of...
- PortugalNot a controlled substance under Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93. Nicotine is not in tables I to IV and Portugal's drug...
- QatarNicotine is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three...
- RomaniaNicotine is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- SamoaIsolated nicotine is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967 and is not treated as a narcotic....
- Saudi ArabiaNicotine is not a controlled substance under the Saudi narcotics law. The schedules attached to the Law of...
- SerbiaNicotine is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative check...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug and not a psychoactive substance under this Act. It is not in any Part of the First...
- SlovakiaNicotine is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- Solomon IslandsRestricted as a poison, with sale by an authorised seller of poisons or the holder of a Poisons Licence, on...
- South AfricaNot named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, so it is not a drug...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Nicotine is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaNot a dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): absent...
- SurinameThis act does not reach it. Nicotine is not listed in either annex to the Wet verdovende middelen and is not...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for nicotine. The German search...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandNicotine is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoNicotine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the...
- TurkeyNicotine is not a controlled drug in Turkey. The dossier's search record reads «Arama kaydı: “nicotine”...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine by the tobacco and nicotine product regime rather than by the narcotics list. Record...
- United Arab EmiratesNicotine is regulated through tobacco and nicotine product law rather than being classified as a narcotic or...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Nicotine is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as in force on 2...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayNot placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. nicotine is not named...
- UzbekistanNicotine vapes, nicotine liquids and nicotine pouches are banned outright in Uzbekistan, including import and...
- VenezuelaOutside the criminal drug schedule. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies controlled drugs by reference...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Nicotine is not a Decree 28/2026 narcotic or precursor entry; tobacco regulation...
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Not individually verified
For these 123 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Nicotine specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe