Smoking in Turkey

About a quarter of adults in Turkey smoke. Smoking in Turkey is banned in government offices, workplaces, bars, restaurants, cafés, shopping malls, schools, hospitals, and all forms of public transport, including trains, taxis and ferries. Turkey's smoking ban includes provisions for violators, where anyone caught smoking in a designated smoke-free area faces a fine and bar owners who fail to enforce the ban could be fined a larger amount.

Tobacco is grown and cigarette factories use 11% local tobacco as of 2023. Traditionally oriental tobacco was grown but nowadays cigarette manufacturers prefer Virginia, which requires irrigation. Smoking is a major cause of poor health in Turkey. Often locally grown tobacco is rolled illegally to avoid taxes. Rolling machines can easily be bought. Also there is illegal waterpipe tobacco.

Manufacture and import of e-cigarettes is banned, so only combustible cigarettes with deadly smoke are made and sold legally. As of 2023 health impact assessment is not done in Turkey.: 50  A 2024 study said the country was almost ready for a tobacco endgame.

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