E-cigarettes in Norway

Norway: The Ministry of Health has presented a public health report that introduces a new national tobacco strategy. The government aims to introduce further restrictions on e-cigarettes such as standardised packaging, a flavour ban, increasing the legal age to buy e-cigarettes to 20, tightening advertising rules and banning long-distance sales. In February 2023, the government notified a bill to the European Commission TRIS database to introduce plain packaging for e-cigarettes and ban non-tobacco flavours in e-liquids. The Norwegian European Economic Area (EEA) Committee decided on 4th February 2022 to incorporate the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into the EEA Agreement. However, the EEA Committee's decision, and thus the legalisation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, will not enter into force until the Storting (parliament) has given its consent. On its webpage on e-cigarettes the Health Directorate says the ban on nicotine-containing vapour products is likely to be lifted in 2023.

Norway: The government notified a bill to the European Commission TRIS database that aims to introduce plain packaging for e-cigarettes and ban non-tobacco flavours in e-liquids. The Norwegian European Economic Area (EEA) Committee decided on 4th February 2022 to incorporate the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into the EEA Agreement. However, the EEA Committee's decision, and thus the legalisation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, will not enter into force until the Storting (parliament) has given its consent. The Health Directorate in its online page on e-cigarettes says the ban on nicotine-containing vapour products is likely to be lifted in 2023.