Washington has no permanent statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vapor products after a 2019 emergency rule expired. Seattle has explored menthol restrictions but no city-wide flavor ban is in effect. Federal rules ban most flavored cartridge e-cigarettes.
Washington enacted a 120-day emergency flavored vapor ban in October 2019 that expired in 2020 without legislative renewal. No permanent statewide flavor restriction exists. Federal FDA rules effectively ban most flavored closed-system (cartridge) e-cigarettes other than tobacco and menthol, though disposables and open-system flavored products remain widely sold. Seattle's City Council has discussed menthol cigarette and flavored tobacco restrictions but no ordinance has passed; King County Public Health continues advocacy. Hookah lounges retain a narrow operating exemption under RCW 70.160 grandfathering. Retailers must still comply with FDA premarket authorization requirements for all vapor SKUs.
Selling unauthorized FDA-banned flavored cartridge e-cigarettes: federal civil penalties up to thousands per item; state license suspension for non-compliant SKUs.
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