Nicotine Pouches in Canada

Canada regulates nicotine pouches as health products rather than as tobacco or consumer goods.

They fall under the Food and Drugs Act and the Natural Health Products Regulations as nicotine replacement therapy. A product needs a licence from Health Canada before it may be sold, and only a small number hold one.

This is the practical difference from the United States or Sweden: in Canada the default is that a pouch may not be sold, and an authorisation is what makes a specific product lawful.

Provinces regulate retail sale, so conditions of sale and the age of sale vary by province and are not stated here.