Tobacco — Austria
What travelers need to know about tobacco in Austria. What is legal at home can be a serious crime here — each rule links to its official source.
Tobacco in Austria: restricted — there are real limits travelers must follow.
Arriving in Austria from outside the EU you must be at least 17, and you get ONE of: 200 cigarettes, 100 cigarillos (cigars up to 3 g each), 50 cigars, or 250 g of smoking tobacco - or a proportional mix. Watch this: heated-tobacco sticks are NOT in the tobacco allowance at all. Austria puts them under the general goods value limit (EUR 430 by air, EUR 300 otherwise), and within that value you may have at most 800 tobacco sticks or 250 g of contained tobacco.
Tobacco above the allowance must be declared to customs on entry and import duty and taxes paid. Travellers under 17 get no tobacco allowance at all. No fine figure is published on this page and none is invented here.
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