Safer nicotine products in Latin America

Safer nicotine products (SNP) are widely available in Latin American countries. Even in countries where legal purchase is not possible, these products are in use. This is supported by official prevalence data. Fully understanding the presence and use of SNP in Latin America is therefore difficult without taking illicit markets into account, given the large scale of these markets operating in many countries. However, the scale and scope of access to illicit products is not usually documented, making it difficult to quantify and cite – largely leaving researchers limited to observations about whether consumers can or cannot legally purchase different types of SNP in each country.