What is the smoking age in Costa Rica?
18
Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
Costa Rica 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
- Nicaragua
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Panama
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Honduras
- 19+ Minimum age to buy tobacco: 21.
- El Salvador
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Guatemala
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Belize
- Under 18 Tobacco sales are allowed to anyone, including minors.
Other laws in Costa Rica
- Cannabis
- Decriminalized
- Drinking Age
- 18–20
- E-Cigarettes
- Legal / lightly regulated
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