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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act
Business and Professions Code
Division 8.5. Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act
Section 22950.5
22950.5. Definitions. For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) "Department" means the State Department of Public Health.
(b) "Enforcing agency" means the State Department of Public Health, another state agency, including, but not limited to, the office of the Attorney General, or a local law enforcement agency, including, but not limited to, a city attorney, district attorney, or county counsel.
(c) "Smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. "Smoking" includes the use of an electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking.
(d) (1) "Tobacco product" means any of the following:
(A) A product containing, made, or derived from tobacco or nicotine that is intended for human consumption, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, or snuff.
(B) An electronic device that delivers nicotine or other vaporized liquids to the person inhaling from the device, including, but not limited to, an electronic cigarette, cigar, pipe, or hookah.
(C) Any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product, whether or not sold separately.
(2) "Tobacco product" does not include a product that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product or for other therapeutic purposes where the product is marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose.
Note.—This law guide only contains pertinent sections of Division 8.5 of the Business and Professions Code relating to the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act. For the content of these omitted provisions or for the history of any of the provisions included here, see Business and Professions Code, annotated, published by Deering or West.