Guides
The questions behind the map.
The 23 market pages answer what the rules are somewhere specific. These answer the questions that come up everywhere — and every claim on them is drawn from a market page where it is sourced.
Start here if you are
- Choosing a market — the map, then formats
- Specifying hardware — age checks and data
- Negotiating a site — siting and operating models
What can I legally sell here at all?
Product formats
Snus, nicotine pouches, nicotine-free pouches and caffeine pouches are the same object governed by four different bodies of law. Which one you load decides where the machine may stand.
Read →What format is the brand I was asked for?
Brand index
ZYN, General, Onico and 150 more, sorted by what is actually in them. Onico is sold as snus and carries no nicotine; Below Zero carries plenty. The name is not the law.
Read →May I sell it from a machine?
Vending machines
Lawful to sell is not lawful to vend. The four ways a market closes to unattended sale, and the markets each applies.
Read →May I show it in a shop?
Display coolers
A branded cooler is display and advertising at once, governed by rules that are stricter than the machine ones in several markets and looser in others.
Read →How does the machine prove age?
Age verification
Behind a counter a person checks; in a machine, the machine has to. Four methods, unequally accepted, plus the duties that have nothing to do with the technology.
Read →Where can I actually put it?
Siting & placement
Where a machine may physically stand is a third question again. The venue rule is the one that most often kills an estate that looked viable.
Read →Who is liable when it goes wrong?
Operating models
Who owns the machine matters less than who carries the duty — and in most markets that attaches to the premises or a licence rather than to the equipment.
Read →What does the age check leave behind?
Payments & data
Payment and the age check are one interaction, and verifying age means processing identity documents. The compliance solution creates its own compliance problem.
Read →What do these words actually mean?
Terms explained
Snus, pouches, white snus, vending. Two of these mean different things to different people, and one of those differences is worth a legal opinion.
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The short version
Four questions, in order.
- 01May the product be sold here at all?
- 02May it be sold from a machine?
- 03May it be shown?
- 04And if the answer is no — what else fits the same machine?
The fourth is the one the rest of this category does not ask. In 4 formats there are two that carry no nicotine at all, and no prohibition on this map reaches them.