Tobacco & Vaping in Long Beach, CA (2026)
2 verified tobacco & vaping rules for Long Beach, California, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Vape Retail Rules
Long Beach requires every tobacco and electronic cigarette retailer to hold a city tobacco retailer license under LBMC Chapter 5.40 in addition to the state license, with annual fees, density caps in some areas, and mandatory youth-decoy compliance checks.
Tobacco and Vape Retailer Licensing
Some RestrictionsFlavored Tobacco Bans
California Senate Bill 793, upheld by voters as Proposition 31 in 2022, bans the retail sale of most flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes and flavored vape liquids. Long Beach enforces the ban through tobacco retailer licensing.
Flavored Tobacco Sales Ban
Heavy RestrictionsCal. Health & Safety Code Sec. 104559.5(a)
"Characterizing flavor" means a taste or odor, distinguishable by an ordinary consumer either prior to or during the consumption of a tobacco product, other than the taste or odor of tobacco, including, but not limited to, tastes or odors relating to any fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, wintergreen, herb, or spice, or a cooling sensatio...
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