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Tobacco/Cigarette Flavor Ban by State 
State State Flavor Bans County/ City/ Local Flavor Bans Description
California   Adelanto, Alameda, Alameda County, Alhambra, Alturas, Antioch, Baldwin Park, Buena Park, Benicia, Berkeley,Beverly HillsBurbankBurlingame, CapitolaCarpinteria, CarsonContra Costa CountyCorte Madera, Cudahy, Culver City, Cupertino, Davis, Delano, Dublin, El Monte, Encinitas, Fairfax, Fremont, Glendale, Guadalupe, Half Moon Bay, Hayward, Hermosa Beach, Imperial Beach, Lafayette, Larkspur, Long Beach, Los Altos, Los Angeles County, Los Gatos, Mammoth Lake, Manhattan Beach, Marin County, Maywood, Mendocino County, Menlo Park, Mill Valley, Mono County, Morgan Hill, Napa, Oakland, Oroville, Oxnard, Pacific Grove, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Pleasanton, Redwood City, Richmond, Sacramento, Sacramento County, San Anselmo, San Carlos, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Leandro, San Mateo, San Pablo, San Rafael, Santa Ana, San BenitoSanta Clara County, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Santa Maria, South San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Ventura, Walnut Creek County, Watsonville, West Hollywood, Woodland, Yolo County  These counties restrict retailers from selling, offering for sale or distributing flavored tobacco products including vaping liquids and menthol cigarettes. 
  Anderson, Calabasas, Danville, El Cerrito, Loomis, Morro Bay, Novato, PinoleSan Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Ventura County These counties restricts retailers from selling  flavored tobacco products. 
Colorado   City of Aspen

Tobacco product retail establishments shall not sell, offer for sale or possess with the intent to sell flavored tobacco products including menthol effective 1/1/2020.                                      

  City of Boulder

Banning the sale of flavored tobacco products to be used in an electronic smoking device in Boulder. The sale of menthol flavored electronic cigarettes in the city of Boulder is completely prohibited since January 01, 2020.       

  City of Glenwood Springs

Effective October 15, 2019 the city of Glenwood Springs prohibits the sale of all flavored tobacco products. The flavor ban includes all tobacco products including but are not limited to: flavored vaping or e-cigarette products, menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars, flavored chewing tobacco, flavored pipe tobacco, etc.    

  Snowmass Village 

Restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol in tobacco retail establishments within the town of Snowmass village.   

  Denver Effective July 1, 2023, it shall be unlawful for any retail tobacco store, or for any person acting as an officer, authorized agent, representative, or employee of such retail tobacco store, to sell, offer for sale, give, barter, deliver or furnish to a user or consumer any flavored tobacco product or samples of such products. 
  Town of Carbondale Bans the sale of candy flavored nicotine containing products.
Connecticut SB 326  

Effective January 1, 2022, this bill prohibits e-cigarette dealers from selling, delivering, giving, or possessing with the intent to sell, e-cigarettes and vapor products with a nicotine content greater than 35 milligrams per milliliter (mg/ml) or flavoring agent other than tobacco.

District of Columbia D.C. Law 24-25   Effective September 22, 2021, the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products including menthol has been prohibited. 
Georgia   City of Watkinsville City code, ch.57, sec.31A-4

No one shall sell a tobacco product with, as a constituent or additive, an artificial or natural flavor or aroma besides tobacco.

Illinois   City of Chicago SO2020-3388 Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco and flavored liquid nicotine products effective November 2021. 
  River Forest 

Prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products.

Maine   Brunswick Effective June 1, 2022, the city of Brunswick ended the sale of flavored tobacco products including e-cigarettes and menthol flavored products. 
 

City of Bangor Ordinance 22-180

Effective January 1, 2022, the city of Bangor prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products including menthol. 

  City of Portland Effective June1, 2022, the city of Portland prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products, including natural, synthetic, and menthol tobacco products. .
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Law  

The sale and consumption of all flavored nicotine vaping products, combustible cigarettes and other tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored chewing tobacco,  may only occur within licensed smoking bars.

Minnesota   City of Bloomington

Prohibits the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including menthol effective January 01, 2022.  

 

City of Arden Hills: Ordinance 2019-005

Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products within the City, except for consumption adults-only tobacco stores, effective until July 1, 2023.                                                                     

  Saint Paul

 Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco including menthol cigarettes. 

  City of Moorhead

Commencing January 1, 2022, a restriction is placed on the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including but not limited to flavored cigarettes, menthol products, smokeless, chewing and all other tobacco products. 

  City of Edina  Effective September 1, 2020, no person in the city of Edina is allowed to sell or distribute any flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes. 
  Falcon Heights Prohibits any person from selling or offering to sell any flavored tobacco product. 
  Fridley Effective May 01, 2021, this law prohibits retailers from selling flavored tobacco products. This restriction does not apply to Tobacco Product Shops.
  Golden Valley City Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco including menthol.
  Minneapolismn

No person shall sell, offer for sale, give away, barter, exchange, or otherwise deal in flavored tobacco products or samples of such products. This does not apply to tobacco products shops or to a licensed tobacco dealer that otherwise meets the definition of and requirements applicable to a tobacco products shop.

  New Hope Prohibits the sale of candy and fruit flavored tobacco products.
  Prior Lake ORDINANCE NO. 121-03 Prohibits the sale of flavored vaping products. 
  Shoreview ORDINANCE NO. 984 Restricts the sale of flavored tobacco products except menthol. 
  Nobles county

Noble county passes tobacco ordinance with limits on sale of flavored tobacco products. Menthol, mint and wintergreen products are exempted from the section of the ordinance addressing flavored products.

  St. Louis Park Effective May 1, 2018, the city of St. Louis Park prohibited the sale of flavored tobacco. Menthol, wintergreen and mint are exempt from the list of banned flavors. 
Montana   Missoula City The city has put restrictions on the display of tobacco products, the sale of flavored electronic tobacco products, and on the unlawful transactions consisting of selling or giving tobacco products. 
New Jersey SB 3265   The state imposes a ban on the sale and distribution of flavored vape products including menthol. 
New York New York State Department of Health   Effective May 18, 2020, the state of New York put a statewide ban  on the sale of flavored nicotine vapor products. The law also  bans the sale of all tobacco and nicotine vapor products in pharmacies. 
  NYC NYC banned the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products. The city prohibits the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes and flavored e-liquids of any size or shape. Menthol, mint, wintergreen and unflavored tobacco are exempt from the ban. 
  City of Yonkers  Effective October 01, 2019, the City of Yonkers banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and e-liquids. 
Oregon   Washington County Ordinance 878

Effective January 1, 2022, the county banned the sale and distribution of any flavored tobacco products or flavored synthetic nicotine products. 

Pennsylvania   Philadelphia Ordinance 180457 Effective December 18, 2019, the sale and distribution of tobacco products other than cigarettes with characterizing flavors has been banned in Philadelphia. 
Rhode Island   City of Providence  Ordinance 2012-6

The city of Providence passed a law making it unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale any flavored tobacco product to a consumer, except in a smoking bar.

  Central Falls Central Falls has banned all flavored tobacco product sales. 
  Town of Johnston Town of Johnston prohibited the sale of flavored tobacco products. 
Utah Utah Tobacco Law   Utah law prohibits a general tobacco retailer from gifting, distributing, selling, offering for sale, furnishing a flavored electronic cigarette product. Only tobacco retailers permitted as a retail tobacco specialty business are allowed to sell flavored electronic cigarette products.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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