Promoting tobacco or vaping
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What triggers it
Promoting tobacco, vapes, e-cigarettes, rolling papers or herbal cigarettes, helping sell them, minors vaping, or drinking vape juice. Vape reviews get limited ads.
What YouTube says
“Promoting products designed to simulate tobacco smoking”
We last checked this against YouTube's page on .
How to fix it
Remove tobacco or vape sponsorships and on-camera vaping that isn't needed.
Good to know
Look for vape brands, smoke tricks and sponsor codes. Incidental smoking in a scene is less risky than promotion.
Can FYProof spot it?
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- On-screen text: not for this rule
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Related YouTube rules
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