Requirements on smokeless tobacco products
Smokeless tobacco products intended for consumers on the Swedish market must comply with the rules in the Act on Tobacco and Similar Products and other relevant legislation. For example the Act on Tobacco Tax.
What is a smokeless tobacco product?
Smokeless tobacco product is a tobacco product not involving a combustion process, including chewing tobacco, nasal tobacco and tobacco for oral use.
- Chewing tobacco is a smokeless tobacco product exclusively intended for the purpose of chewing.
- Nasal tobacco is a smokeless tobacco product that can be consumed via the nose.
- Tobacco for oral use are all tobacco products for oral use, except those intended to be inhaled or chewed, made wholly or partly of tobacco, in powder or in particulate form or in any combination of those forms, particularly those presented in sachet portions or porous sachets. In Sweden this type of product is generally called snus.
Requirements in the Act on Tobacco and Similar Products
- Reporting obligations on smokeless tobacco products
- Product requirements on smokeless tobacco products
- Labelling requirements on smokeless tobacco products
Requirements in other legislations
In Sweden, there are requirements in other legislation than the Act on Tobacco and Similar Products that applies to smokeless tobacco products.
- Act on Tobacco Tax. If you have questions about excise duty on tobacco that must be paid on tobacco goods manufactured in, imported into, or received in Sweden – either from another EU country or from a country outside the EU, please contact the Swedish Tax Agency.
- Snus and chewing tobacco is also regulated within the framework of food legislation. In addition to the Act on Tobacco and Similar Products, tobacco for oral use, snus, and chewing tobacco is also regulated within the framework of food legislation. If you have any questions about food legislation, please contact the Swedish Food Agency.
Act (2022:155) on Tobacco Tax (riksdagen.se) (in Swedish)
