What is the smoking age in the Republic of the Congo?
18
Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
The Republic of the Congo is one of 141 countries classified “18” for the smoking age — 78% of the 180 with data. (Also searched as minimum age to buy tobacco.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Smoking age
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- Gabon
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Equatorial Guinea
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Cameroon
- Under 18 No minimum age requirement for buying or smoking tobacco products.
- São Tomé and Principe
- Under 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 16.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Central African Republic
- Under 18 No minimum age requirement for buying or smoking tobacco products.
Other laws in Republic of the Congo
- Cannabis
- Illegal
- Drinking Age
- 18–20
- E-Cigarettes
- Legal / lightly regulated
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