# Tobacco products (cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Tobacco products (cigarettes and smokeless tobacco), carrier is International mail to the United States (UPU list); restriction type is prohibited; scope is inbound international mail to the United States; conditions is Regardless of quantity, cigarettes (including roll-your-own tobacco) and smokeless tobacco are prohibited in any type of international mail into the United States; nonmailable items are subject to seizure and forfeiture, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Item category:** Tobacco products (cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Carrier:** International mail to the United States (UPU list) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** prohibited _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** inbound international mail to the United States _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Regardless of quantity, cigarettes (including roll-your-own tobacco) and smokeless tobacco are prohibited in any type of international mail into the United States; nonmailable items are subject to seizure and forfeiture. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Regardless of quantity; cigarettes (including roll-your-own tobacco) and smokeless tobacco are prohibited in any type of international mail into the United States.

## Source

- https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/files/postalSolutions/programmesAndServices/postalSupplyChain/customs/prohibitedArticles/ListOfProhibitedArticles.pdf

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
Part of [Postal shipping restrictions by item category](https://referencesource.org/shipping-restrictions-by-class/).