Ventura County, CA Tobacco & Vaping: Flavored Tobacco Bans (2026)

5, is broad in every dimension the section names. It reaches conduct short of a completed sale: exchanging a product, offering it for sale or exchange, or merely possessing it with the intent to sell or exchange all violate § 6834. It reaches people beyond the shop owner, applying expressly to a retailer's agents and employees. And it covers flavored vaping paraphernalia along with the products themselves. Geographically, the ordinance covers the entire unincorporated county, then extends onto county-owned ground elsewhere: all County buildings and all County property located within the cities in Ventura County.

A county facility inside a city is therefore covered even though the surrounding city sets its own rules for everywhere else within its limits. One category is carved out by definition: § 6833 excludes tobacco-flavored products from the meaning of flavored, so tobacco-flavored vaping products fall outside the ban. The ordinance took effect December 10, 2019.