E-cigarettes in Spain
This page includes all of our content relating to Spain, 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: Spain, November 2021
15th November 2021
Regulatory reports
Thorough reports providing legal and regulatory analysis of different countries and sections of the e-cigarette industry
Regulatory report: Spain
3rd March 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: Spain 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: Spanish vaping population, July 2019
30th July 2019
Spanish e-cigarette regulation in a nutshell
Spain joined the EU in 1986 and has been part of the Eurozone since its inception. It is a signatory of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), and it has tough anti-smoking regulations in place, yet it has a high prevalence of smoking by European standards. According to the most recent ECigIntelligence survey data, around 28% of adults smoke and a total of 1.4% are daily or occasional vapers.
The sale and use of e-cigarettes principally involves health and consumer protection concerns. Responsibility for these in Spain is traditionally shared between national and regional governments. Power belongs mainly to the regions, but central government has the capacity to establish common principles – which the regions must respect.
The regions have an important role overseeing retail outlets distributing e-cigs and ensuring the adequacy of potential adverse health effect monitoring. In addition, regions often establish their own agenda independently, especially those that have a very distinct identity or political reality.
The government has been working on a new regulation that will impose further restrictions on e-cigarettes and taxes. The Ministry of Health plans to have the regulation approved by 2022.
The authorities launched a campaign in 2019 entitled ‘El tobaco ata y te mata’ (tobacco binds and kills you), which aimed to raise awareness, particularly among young people. A year later, the Ministry of Health published the 2020 report on e-cigarettes, in which it denounced potential risks to health.
Some of the autonomous communities have also moved to regulate e-cigarettes, or at least start the process of regulating them, whilst some others have declared against it.
