What is the smoking age in Nigeria?
18
Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
Nigeria 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
- Cameroon
- Under 18 No minimum age requirement for buying or smoking tobacco products.
- Niger
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Benin
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Togo
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Equatorial Guinea
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
- Ghana
- 18 Minimum age to buy tobacco: 18.
Other laws in Nigeria
- Cannabis
- Illegal
- Drinking Age
- 18–20
- E-Cigarettes
- Legal / lightly regulated
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