Alhambra, CA Tobacco & Vaping: Flavored Tobacco Bans (2026)

030 makes it a chapter violation for any tobacco retailer or its agents or employees to sell, offer for sale, or possess with intent to sell any flavored tobacco product from July 1, 2022 onward. The ordinance builds in two rebuttable presumptions to make enforcement practical: possessing four or more flavored tobacco products (individually, in packages, or combined) presumes intent to sell, and a product is presumed "flavored" if the retailer or manufacturer has publicly claimed it imparts a characterizing flavor, used labeling or packaging that implies a flavor, or marketed it in a way reasonably expected to make consumers believe it is flavored.

This reaches flavored vape cartridges and e-liquid sold at Alhambra's tobacco and vape retailers, not just menthol cigarettes or flavored cigars. 90, a flavored-tobacco sale is enforced the same way as any other tobacco retailer license violation: through the Police Department and Code Enforcement Division's inspection and youth decoy program, with the violation counted separately for each retailer license discipline point.