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E-cigarettes in Switzerland
This page includes all of our content relating to Switzerland, 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: Switzerland, March 2021
15th March 2021
Regulatory reports
Thorough reports providing legal and regulatory analysis of different countries and sections of the e-cigarette industry
Regulatory report: Switzerland
15th April 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: Switzerland 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
Switzerland’s leading heated tobacco brands
28th January 2020
Future of e-cigarettes in Switzerland
Home to around 8.4m people, Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world per capita. It is known for its lenient tobacco regulations – it has not ratified a global tobacco control treaty – yet despite this Switzerland’s smoking rate was 23% in 2019, lower than neighbouring France or Germany. Furthermore, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) study in 2018, smoking prevalence is falling every year and the WHO estimates this trend will continue for the next five years.
Switzerland was also one of the first markets where heated tobacco products were launched. By 2022, all e-cigarettes will be regulated along with the tobacco products under federal law. The intention of the Federal Tobacco Products Act is to guarantee uniform regulation across Switzerland, but cantons will be entitled to implement stricter regulations.
The law distinguishes between e-cigarettes (both nicotine-containing and nicotine-free) and tobacco products.
Non-nicotine e-cigarettes will have some of the provisions of the Tobacco Act applied to them, notably with respect to advertising restrictions, thus going beyond the TPD. Besides that, they will continue to be regulated as consumer products under the Federal Act on Food Safety.
