Newport Beach, CA Tobacco & Vaping: Flavored Tobacco Bans (2026)

30 defines a "flavored tobacco product" as any tobacco product containing a constituent that imparts a taste or odor distinguishable by an ordinary consumer other than tobacco itself, expressly including fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, wintergreen, herb or spice flavors, as well as any cooling sensation, and it covers any tobacco product not listed on the Attorney General's Unflavored Tobacco List maintained under Health and Safety Code Sec. 1 (Sec. 010). The prohibition reaches selling, advertising for sale, offering for sale, and distributing, directly or indirectly, whether or not for monetary gain (Sec.

020). "Tobacco product" is defined broadly to include cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, snuff, and any electronic device that delivers nicotine or vaporized liquid, such as e-cigarettes, e-cigars, vape pens and hookahs, plus any component or accessory of such a product sold separately. Two narrow carve-outs exist: flavored loose-leaf tobacco, and a "premium cigar," defined as a handmade cigar not mass-produced by mechanization, with a wrapper made entirely of whole tobacco leaf, no filter, tip or nontobacco mouthpiece, capped by hand, and priced at a wholesale minimum of $12. 25 rule that bans smoking any flavored tobacco product on public property citywide, including parks, sidewalks, public buildings and schools.