Ireland’s 2026 amendment bill to regulate nicotine pouches and tighten rules on vaping products
March 05, 2026 by 2firsts.com
Ireland’s 2026 amendment bill to regulate nicotine pouches and tighten rules on vaping products
According to the Irish Examiner, Ireland’s Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drug Strategy Jennifer Murnane O’Connor announced that the Government has approved the publication of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026. The proposed legislation aims to further regulate nicotine vaping products and address emerging nicotine products such as nicotine pouches. It would ban the sale of nicotine products, including pouches, to individuals under 18, prohibit advertising and point-of-sale displays of these products in mixed retail outlets, and introduce stricter packaging rules by limiting colours, imagery, and device design, including banning products that resemble toys or games. The bill would also restrict flavour descriptions for vapes to basic names only and limit available flavours in nicotine inhaling products to tobacco.
17.00% of the adult population are current smokers. There are approximately 730,000 current smokers in Ireland 20.00% of men are current smokers but only 14.60% of women.
SOURCE: GSTHR
