California AB 793, upheld by 2022 voter referendum Prop 31, bans most flavored tobacco product sales statewide. Thousand Oaks retailers cannot sell flavored cigarettes, vapes, hookah tobacco, or smokeless tobacco.
California Senate Bill 793, signed 2020 and confirmed by voters as Proposition 31 in November 2022, prohibits the retail sale of most flavored tobacco products and tobacco product flavor enhancers. The ban covers menthol cigarettes, flavored e-cigarettes and vape liquids, flavored chewing tobacco, snus, and hookah tobacco except for limited exemptions. Premium cigars over a certain price point and loose-leaf pipe tobacco received narrow carve-outs. Thousand Oaks tobacco retailers must remove all banned flavored products from sale. Ventura County Public Health enforces alongside ABC. The ban survived constitutional challenge and aligns with FDA federal flavored cigarette restrictions.
First violation triggers warning, then escalating fines up to two hundred fifty dollars per second offense and five hundred per third under Health and Safety Code 104559.5 with possible license suspension.
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