Vaping in Pakistan: is it legal, and can you bring a vape? (2026)

Pakistan has no federal statute that bans or specifically regulates vapes. Tobacco Control Laws, last updated in August 2020, lists e-cigarette sales as allowed with no restrictions on use or packaging. The tracker GSTHR (page updated February 2025) describes vaping as legal and available, with importers and traders allowed to operate and adults over 18 able to buy. An ECigIntelligence report of 8 April 2026 says nicotine vapes are not expressly regulated and are classed as consumer products.

A change may be coming. According to the same report, members of the ruling party proposed a bill to legislate on vapes, and the Ministry of National Health Services proposed amending it to impose a complete ban. The report gives no dates and we found no passed text, so nothing has changed for visitors.

On 3 June 2025 the Punjab government announced a province-wide ban on selling vapes and e-cigarettes, with a crackdown on shops. On 24 June 2025 the Lahore High Court, in a petition by 74 vape dealers, ordered shops de-sealed until further notice and barred the provincial administration from coercive action in the meantime. According to Daily Pakistan, the Punjab law officer failed to present a legal justification for sealing the shops and the hearing was adjourned to 3 July 2025.

We could not find the outcome after that hearing. If you are in Punjab, assume the province's attitude is harder than the national one.

We found no rule either way. The customs page published by Islamabad airport lists the duty-free personal allowance as 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars, mentions no vaping goods, and shows its prohibited items only as an image.

Unconfirmed: whether customs applies a quantity limit, a nicotine limit or duty to a traveller's vape. Ask the Pakistani embassy or customs before you travel.

For battery and liquid rules in the cabin, see can you bring a vape on a plane.

The national anti-smoking law is the Prohibition of Smoking in Enclosed Places and Protection of Non-Smokers Health Ordinance, 2002. It bans smoking in enclosed places of public work or use and in public service vehicles, which it says include trains and aeroplanes, and it defines smoking as smoking tobacco in cigarettes, cigars or a pipe. E-cigarettes are not named, so whether it reaches vaping is not settled. The penalty in section 11 is a fine of up to Rs 1,000 for offences under sections 5, 6 and 10, with higher fines for repeat offences.

Provinces may pass stricter smoke-free laws than the national one. Airport managers decide what is provided; our pages for Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi cover smoking areas, not vaping rooms.

We found no Pakistani source on IQOS or other heated tobacco devices. Nicotine pouches are sold and made locally: Tobacco Insider reports that Philip Morris began producing Zyn at Sahiwal in December 2025, and says Pakistan is among the top five markets for modern oral nicotine. We found no rule on carrying them. We found nothing on passengers who connect through a Pakistani airport without entering the country.

Cigarette allowances and the smoking rules are on the Pakistan rules page.