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In the past ten years, e-cigarettes have grown rapidly to become the most popular category of tobacco consumption and the most common replacement product.  And as it grows in popularity, it brought in a troublesome clientele of curious minors. Regulators and lawmakers have used a variety of strategies to keep electronic cigarette products away from teens, by far the most common being regulating the age at which e-cigarette products can be purchased. 

As with alcohol, a mandatory minimum age for vaporizer sales is not a perfect solution, but it is the safest way to reduce which teen e-cigarettes vaping. 

The legal age for e-cigarettes in countries around the world

With the exception of countries that ban e-cigarettes and those that do not have e-cigarette laws, most countries simply use the legal age of adulthood to set a minimum age for buying e-cigarette products. 

Some countries have made a national age of consent for buying vaporizers,but allow states or provinces to set a higher age. For example: Canada’s legal age for e-cigarette is 18 years old, but most of provinces and districts made this legal age for e-cigarette is 19 years old.

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

And in the world’s largest e-cigarette market—United States, the legal age for e cigarette is 21 years old.

Here are countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 18 years old

as follows:

Belgium

Bhutan

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Ecuador

England

Germany

Greek

Israel

Italy

Lithuania

Malaysia

Malta

Moldova

New Zealand

Poland

Paraguay

Poland

Here are countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 19 years old

as follows:

Jordan

South Korea

Turkey

Here are countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 20 years old

as follows:

Japan

Here are countries where the legal age for e-cigarettes is 21 years old

as follows:

Ethiopia

Guam

Honduras

Niue

Republic of Palau

Philippines

United States