Market and legal data for the vapour sector in Venezuela

30th July 2024: Venezuela: Presidential elections took place on Sunday (28th July), allegedly resulting in the re-election of president Nicolás Maduro by 51% of the votes – compared with 44% for Edmundo González, his main opposition rival – press reports. The opposition claims that the election results have been altered and that González has more than 70% of the electorate’s support and should therefore be declared as president. Protests are erupting in the country. If, eventually, Maduro is officially invested as president, the ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco will be maintained in the long term. In the hypothetical scenario of González eventually becoming president, however, it would significantly raise hopes of the ban being lifted. Although González has not made any statements regarding these products, his party’s more pro-market stance could make it more prone to liberalise sales than the current regime.
8th August 2023: Venezuela / Americas: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which serves as regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Americas, has praised Venezuela for its recently announced ban on e-cigarettes. The organisation believes e-cigs put progress on tobacco control at risk with the “negative impact on the health of the population due to the diseases they generate” The PAHO also warns that “being particularly popular among young people, [e-cigarettes] create new cohorts of nicotine and tobacco users, with adverse implications for health, society, the economy, and national development”. Venezuela’s ban on e-cigarettes was foreseen by ECigIntelligence last month.
4th August 2023: Venezuela: Through Official Gazette 42,682, the government has banned the manufacture, storage, distribution, sale, import, export and consumption of e-cigarettes and e-liquids, regardless of nicotine content. The authorities say that they contain toxic substances that cause addiction, are harmful to health, and increase the risk of heart and lung diseases.
29th June 2023: Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro has asked the government medical and scientific team to evaluate the possibility of banning the sale of e-cigarettes on health grounds, press reports. It comes a week after a resolution was passed, regulating the manufacture, import, export, distribution, marketing, use, advertising and promotion of e-cigarettes and banning their sale to under-18s.
22nd June 2023: Venezuela: The Ministry of Health has passed a resolution regulating the manufacture, import, export, distribution, marketing, use, advertising and promotion of e-cigarettes and banning their sale to under-18s. All provisions apply to both nicotine and nicotine-free vaping products “in order to avoid the serious damage that these products cause to the health of the population”, according to the ministry.

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