E-cigarettes in Portugal
This page includes all of our content relating to Portugal, including our full-length market and regulatory reports, our extensive news coverage – both business and regulatory – our numerous trackers and databases, as well as our live alerts.
Business briefing
Industry news and updates with a focus on companies and businesses in the sector
Regulatory briefing
Global legal and regulatory news and updates from the vape industry
Market reports
Detailed full-length reports including data and analysis of numerous vaping markets around the world
Snapshot: Portugal, June 2020
22nd June 2020
Regulatory reports
Thorough reports providing legal and regulatory analysis of different countries and sections of the e-cigarette industry
Regulatory report: Portugal
12th November 2021
Pricing trackers
Online e-cig pricing guides for numerous markets around the world, updated twice a year and provided in database format
Online e-cig pricing: Portugal Q3 2021
22nd October 2021
Regulatory trackers
Up-to-date information about current regulations around the world, presented in user-friendly maps and Excel spreadsheets
Brands trackers
Our online price benchmarking project, analysing multi-brand retail websites in selected vape markets
Flavour & nicotine trackers
Analytical insights of the most significant vaping flavours and nicotine strengths
Databases
User-friendly databases with key global analysis, statistics, directories and more
Key global e-cigarette markets database: November 2021
5th November 2021
Charts and infographics
A brief highlight of what can be found in our full-length e-cigarette market reports
Graphic: Pricing by country, Portugal July 2019
1st August 2019
Some e-cigarette facts in Portugal
Portugal’s e-cigarette market is predicted to grow over the next few years despite a recent slow-down, probably brought about by the tough e-cig regulations that were brought in in January 2016. These have subsequently been toned down but are still in place.
The Amendment to the Tobacco Law 63/2017 tackles all policy areas to a large extent in accordance with the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). The law does not regulate zero-nicotine products, which should comply with general consumer-safety laws. In practice, though, the authorities may try to enforce on non-nicotine products the advertising and sales restrictions applicable to nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. This is because non-nicotine products can be associated with nicotine ones and their promotion interpreted as indirect promotion of nicotine products.
While the Portuguese Tobacco Law bans both domestic and cross-border distance sales of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, in practice it is possible to shop fully online so we can presume that the authorities are not currently enforcing these regulations, so the online channel appears to be active despite regulation not allowing distance sales.
