Questions related to tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. Including customs, health, safety, rules, and regulations. Also covers e-cigarettes / vaping.
Use this tag for questions related to the use, import, possession, or purchase of tobacco or nicotine products or paraphernalia, including cigarettes, cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco, rolling papers, snuff, chewing gum, nicotine gum, vaping products, and any and all other products or paraphernalia related to the use of tobacco or nicotine.
Allowed subjects:
- The legality of importing tobacco products into certain destinations.
- The requirements for legally purchasing tobacco products in certain locations, such as minimum age requirements or identification requirements.
- Whether certain tobacco products (e.g. flavored cigarettes) are allowed or banned in certain locations, and whether these bans apply to purchase, import, and/or possession.
- The legality of smoking in certain places, such as train stations, airports, trains, aircraft, malls, or restaurants.
- How to identify (e.g. via signage) places where smoking is permitted.
- How to calculate or pay import duty on tobacco products.
Do not use this tag for:
- Questions about the health effects of smoking, as such questions are off-topic.
- Questions about marijuana. Instead, use the tag drugs.
Example questions:
- How many cigars can I bring with me into Egypt for personal use as a tourist?
- How do I identify restaurants that permit smoking in Tokyo?
- I am flying domestically in Canada with a vaping kit. Are there rules on whether the kit should be in my carry-on or checked luggage?
- Is a foreign passport considered acceptable identification to purchase cigarettes in New York?
- Are there designated smoking areas at London Heathrow airport? If so, how do I find them?
