Product Classifications

Countries classify heated tobacco products (HTPs) as tobacco products (or imitation/novel/other products), pharmaceutical products, e-cigarettes, electronic smoking devices or poisons.

Twenty countries/jurisdictions classify or regulate HTPs as tobacco or tobacco products

Albania, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, Georgia, Guam, Israel, Malaysia, Mongolia, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Korea, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu

Ten countries/jurisdictions classify or regulate HTPs as their own category

ArgentinaCambodia, Egypt, Germany, Iran, JordanMontenegro, Philippines, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Nine countries/jurisdictions classify or regulate HTPs as novel tobacco products

Azerbaijan, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden

Four countries/jurisdictions classify or regulate HTPs as imitation tobacco products

MexicoMauritius, Seychelles, Singapore