South Dakota Tobacco 21 Minimum Age Law

SDCL 34-46-2 Unlawful actions. 34-46-2 . Unlawful actions. The following actions are unlawful: (1) To knowingly sell or distribute a tobacco product to a person under the age of twenty-one; (2) To purchase or attempt to purchase, to receive or attempt to receive, to possess, or to consume a tobacco product if a person is under the age of twenty-one; (3) To purchase a tobacco product on behalf of, or to give a tobacco product to, any person under the age of twenty-one; (4) To sell cigarettes other than in an unopened package originating with the manufacturer and depicting the warning labels required by federal law; (5) To sell tobacco products through a vending machine located in a place other than a place that is open to the public but to which persons under the age of twenty-one are denied access at all times; (6) To sell cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, or both, through a self-service display other than a display that is: (a) A vending machine permitted under subdivision (5) of this section; or (b) Located in a tobacco speciality store; or (7) To distribute tobacco product samples in or on a public street, sidewalk, or park that is within five hundred feet of a playground, school, or other facility when the facility is being used primarily by persons under the age of twenty-one.