Yonkers, NY Tobacco & Vaping: Flavored Tobacco Bans (2026)

Adopted 9-17-2019 by Ord. No. § 31-152 defines 'characterizing flavor' as a distinguishable taste or aroma including, but not limited to, fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, menthol, alcoholic beverage, herb or spice flavoring, expressly excluding plain tobacco flavor. 'Flavored e-liquid' is defined as any nicotine or chemical liquid sold for use in an electronic cigarette that contains a natural or artificial constituent causing the liquid or its vapor to carry a characterizing flavor. Because the ban sits inside Article XVII, Cigarette Dealers, it applies to every retailer already required to hold a § 31-153 cigarette dealer license from the Office of Licensing, so enforcement can reach both the sale itself and the underlying license.

1 rather than repealing it, so the Class II penalty covering the rest of the article carries over directly onto flavor-ban violations without a separate penalty clause. Yonkers enacted this ban years before New York State's own statewide flavored-vapor restrictions, making it one of the city's earlier standalone public-health ordinances layered on top of the cigarette licensing scheme.