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Roll-your-own tobacco must meet set product requirements when provided to consumers on the Swedish market. For example, products must not have characterising flavor, and a unit packet must contain at least 30 grams of tobacco.

Smokeless tobacco products must meet set product requirements when provided to consumers on the Swedish market. For example, portion-packed tobacco for oral use, snus, must contain at least 20 portions.

Smokeless tobacco products that are available to consumers on the Swedish market must carry health warnings in Swedish on its packages.

Manufacturers or importers of tobacco products for smoking are required to report the ingredients and pay a mandatory fee for each product intended to be available to consumers on the Swedish market. Each year you must also fulfil the annual reporting obligation for your reported products and pay a…

Tobacco products for smoking that are available to consumers on the Swedish market must carry health warnings in Swedish on its packages. The health warning consists of a general warning, including smoking cessation information, and a text warning.

Before you make tobacco free nicotine products available to consumers on the Swedish market, you need to notify the sale to either the municipality or us. Tobacco free nicotine products must be compliant with the legal requirements in Sweden and only be sold to those who have reached the age of 18.

Tobacco free nicotine products intended for consumers on the Swedish market must comply with the rules in the Act on Tobacco Free Nicotine Products and other relevant legislation. For example the CLP and Reach regulation.

Manufacturers and importers of tobacco free nicotine products are required to notify and pay a mandatory fee for each product intended to be available to consumers on the Swedish market. Each year you must also fulfil the annual reporting obligation for your notified products and pay a mandatory fee.

Fact sheet about the new rules for the selling of tobacco products that come into force on 1 July 2019. Retailers who wish to sell tobacco products to consumers must now apply for a permit from the municipality in order to do so.

The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) has conducted a systematic review of the available knowledge on possible associations between the use of e-cigarettes or snus and tobacco smoking. We summarise the most important results below.