Vape / E-Cigarette 🇻🇳 Vietnam
Regulatory status unclear; personal use tolerated
Can I bring Vape / E-Cigarette into Vietnam?
Regulatory status unclear; personal use tolerated
Full details
Vietnam's National Assembly Resolution 173/2024/QH15 (effective 1 January 2025) prohibits the import, sale, distribution, advertisement, manufacture, and use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products nationwide. Vietnam Customs at Noi Bai / Tan Son Nhat / Da Nang screen arriving travelers' baggage; devices and pods are seized and destroyed. Penalty under Decree 87/2025: VND 3,000,000-10,000,000 administrative fine for personal carriage.
Active — Customs actively enforces this rule.
Duty-free per person: spirits up to 1.5L (or beer up to 3L), 200 cigarettes or 250g pipe tobacco or 20 cigars; personal goods valued up to VND 10 million (approx. USD $400–$430). For Vietnamese nationals returning after 6+ months abroad, the allowance for goods is higher at VND 20 million.
Carry the device in carry-on (never checked baggage — lithium battery rule). Quantities above the personal-use threshold for Vietnam must be declared to Vietnam Customs with proof of purchase; e-liquid containers obey the standard 100 ml carry-on liquid rule.
Personal use
No specific legislation (proposed regulation pending)
This page covers destination customs rules in Vietnam. Whether you can carry vape / e-cigarette through security, in carry-on, or in checked baggage depends on airline and screening rules — see air travel rules.
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Completely banned. Possession carries criminal penalties.
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Banned. Importation and possession are criminal offences.
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🇦🇺 Australia
Nicotine vapes require a prescription. Recreational vapes heavily restricted.
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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Banned until 2019; now technically permitted for adults but heavily restricted at borders.
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🇲🇾 Malaysia
Vapes legal but nicotine liquid unregulated
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🇮🇳 India
Complete ban on e-cigarettes