What is the smoking age in the Netherlands?
18
Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
The Netherlands 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
- Belgium
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Luxembourg
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Germany
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Denmark
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- France
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- United Kingdom
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
Other laws in Netherlands
- Cannabis
- Decriminalized
- Drinking Age
- 18–20
- Psilocybin Mushrooms
- Legal
- Salvia Divinorum
- Legal / unregulated
- Khat
- Illegal
- E-Cigarettes
- Regulated
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