Chicago Municipal Code 4-64-180 restricts the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol, mint, fruit, and candy flavors, except in adult-only tobacco retailers located more than 500 feet from schools. The rule covers cigarettes, cigars, vapes, and e-liquid.
MCC 4-64-180 bars Chicago Tobacco Dealers from selling characterizing-flavored tobacco products at retail outlets near schools and to general retailers like convenience stores and gas stations. Covered flavors include menthol, mint, wintergreen, fruit, candy, dessert, and clove. The ordinance applies to cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookah tobacco, and electronic cigarette liquid. Tobacco-only retail stores that admit only adults age 21+ and sit outside a 500-foot school buffer can continue limited flavored sales under license. Federal FDA enforcement bars certain flavored cartridge vapes nationwide. CDPH and BACP enforce, with civil fines and Tobacco Dealer license consequences for violations.
Selling banned flavored tobacco violates MCC 4-64-180 with fines from one thousand to five thousand dollars per offense, plus mandatory Tobacco Dealer license suspension or revocation under MCC chapter 4-64.
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