Saint Paul restricts the sale of flavored tobacco and flavored electronic delivery products to adult-only tobacco shops, removing them from convenience stores and gas stations. Menthol is included in the city's flavor restriction.
Saint Paul, like Minneapolis and several Twin Cities suburbs, has adopted a flavor restriction ordinance under its tobacco licensing chapter that limits sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars, flavored e-liquids, and flavored pouches, to licensed adult-only tobacco product shops. General retailers, convenience stores, and gas stations may sell only non-flavored products. Adult-only shops must verify customer age at entry, exclude minors entirely, and restrict advertising. The ordinance is enforced by DSI through licensing inspections and compliance checks. State law has not preempted this category, leaving local control intact for flavor rules.
Selling flavored products outside an adult-only shop can lead to escalating fines, mandatory training, and eventual license suspension or revocation by DSI.
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