Legality
Tobacco legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of Tobacco 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 Tobacco in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaTobacco 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-control and excise legislation rather than through the narcotics annex,...
- AustraliaLegal for adults and regulated; not a scheduled poison in smoking form and not a Commonwealth drug....
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and regulated as a consumer product instead. The tobacco and non smokers...
- 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. Tobacco is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to Bahrain's...
- BangladeshTobacco is not a narcotic under this Act and the narcotics regime does not reach it. It is named nowhere in...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados...
- BelarusTobacco is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route is...
- BelgiumTobacco is not reached by the Belgian controlled drug lists on the text checked here. The search found no...
- BhutanBhutan famously banned the sale of tobacco under the Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan 2010, which prohibited the...
- 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. Tobacco is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaNot a controlled drug. Tobacco is not named in any schedule of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and is...
- ChileNot a controlled drug in Chile. Tabaco is not named in Decreto 867, as its listas stand in the leychile...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for tabaco or Nicotiana tabacum as at...
- Costa RicaNot handled through the drug control model. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes...
- Côte d'IvoireLegal for adults and regulated by Loi n° 2019-676 du 23 juillet 2019 relative à la lutte antitabac en Côte...
- CroatiaTobacco 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. Tobacco is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235...
- CzechiaNot listed. Tobacco is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb....
- DenmarkNot a placed plant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- DominicaTobacco is not a controlled drug under this Act. No plant of the genus Nicotiana is printed in Parts I, II or...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Tobacco has no entry. Ley 50-88 names three plants expressly, «Marihuana» under code 7360,...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. The tobacco plant,...
- El SalvadorNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 31 to 34 of the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades...
- EstoniaTobacco is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandControlled by its own statute rather than by the narcotics schedule. Tupakkalaki 549/2016 section 53...
- FranceTobacco is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaTobacco is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records...
- GermanyTobacco is outside the German narcotics lists and is governed by its own product statute. The search ran on...
- GhanaLegal for adults and regulated by Part Six of the Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851), «TOBACCO CONTROL...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Tobacco 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...
- GuatemalaOutside the Ley contra la Narcoactividad (Decreto 48-92) by the express words of article 2(a), which says the...
- 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. Tobacco, searched also as...
- Hong KongImporting heated tobacco sticks, e-cigarettes or any other alternative smoking product into Hong Kong is an...
- HungaryNot listed. Tobacco is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or P4...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Tobacco 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...
- IranTobacco is regulated under a licensing and public health statute, not a narcotics one. The statute is the...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Tobacco appears nowhere in the ten schedules under any Latin or Arabic...
- 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...
- JamaicaTobacco is not among the drugs to which Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act applies. The scope search recorded...
- JapanTobacco is not a controlled substance in Japan and is not governed by drug law at all. It is governed by the...
- JordanTobacco is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that...
- KazakhstanTobacco 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. Tobacco is in no annexed table of Decree Law...
- LatviaTobacco 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...
- LithuaniaTobacco is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Tobacco is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaTobacco is not a drug question in Malaysia and neither of the two drug statutes reaches it. It is named...
- MaldivesTobacco is subject to a generational prohibition in the Maldives: effective 1 November 2025, anyone born on...
- MaltaNeither Maltese drug ordinance governs tobacco. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from...
- MexicoTobacco is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Tobacco, Nicotiana, is not...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o...
- MoroccoLegal for adults, with smoking banned in listed public places and tobacco advertising banned. The product is...
- MyanmarOutside the reach of Myanmar's narcotics law. Tobacco is not named in Notification 24/2025 or Notification...
- NetherlandsTobacco is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II, and neither is Nicotiana tabacum. Lijst II names...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Tobacco, the cured...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for тутун, and the instrument...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Tobacco 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. Tobacco is not an article specified in the Schedule...
- PanamaTobacco 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: tobacco is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Neither tobacco nor Nicotiana appears in any of the three annexes, so...
- PortugalNot a controlled substance under Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93. Tobacco is not in tables I to IV and is governed by...
- QatarTobacco 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...
- RomaniaTobacco 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...
- SamoaTobacco is not a narcotic under the Narcotics Act 1967; that Act was searched across all pages for tobacco...
- Saudi ArabiaTobacco is not a controlled substance under the Saudi narcotics law. The schedules attached to the Law of...
- SerbiaTobacco 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...
- SlovakiaTobacco 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 IslandsLegal, with limits. Tobacco is regulated by the Tobacco Control Act 2010 (No. 2 of 2010), reprint as in force...
- South AfricaNot named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, so the plant is not...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Tobacco 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. Tobacco is not listed in either annex to the Wet verdovende middelen and no plant...
- 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 tobacco. The German search term...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandTobacco is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoTobacco is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the...
- TurkeyTobacco is not a controlled drug in Turkey. The dossier's search record reads «Arama kaydı: “tobacco” terimi...
- TuvaluLawful and regulated in Tuvalu, with sale and import controlled and sale to people under 18 prohibited, and...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine by the tobacco control and excise regime rather than by the narcotics list. Record UKR-85...
- United Arab EmiratesTobacco is not a narcotic or psychotropic substance under the federal drug schedules. The dossier ran a...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Tobacco 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. tobacco is not named...
- UzbekistanLegal for adults in Uzbekistan, with an age limit of twenty one and a ban on some forms. Tobacco is not a...
- VenezuelaOutside the criminal drug schedule. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies controlled drugs by reference...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Tobacco is not a listed narcotic plant and nicotine is not a listed narcotic or...
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Not individually verified
For these 119 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Tobacco 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
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- 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)
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe