Smoking, vaping or cannabis on screen
Snapchat may leave the video out of recommendations, so fewer people see it.
Not recommendedHow serious: Worth fixingSnapchatDrugs, alcohol and tobacco
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What triggers it
Showing tobacco, nicotine (vapes, pouches) or cannabis products or paraphernalia, even legal adult use.
What Snapchat says
“While our Community Guidelines do not prohibit Snaps of adults using these products in places where they are legal, these Recommendation Eligibility Guidelines deny amplification to such content.”
We last checked this against Snapchat's page on .
How to fix it
Cut or crop shots that show these products.
Good to know
Cigarettes, vapes, hookah, joints, bongs, grinders visible or in use, even briefly in the background.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Related Snapchat rules
Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what Snapchat publishes; it isn't legal advice.