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Appendix C: State Laws - Tobacco PurchaseUsePossessionby Minors
Appendix C: State Laws - Tobacco PurchaseUsePossessionby Minors
Pages 315-326
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focuses on youth access laws and enforcement policies that curtail retail access to tobacco products by underage persons, with little emphasis on punishing underage users of tobacco products. Despite that focus, MLA in the following table, as in the report, therefore covers youth access restrictions that both punish distributors of tobacco products to underage users and the underage users themselves.
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316 MINIMUM AGE OF LEGAL ACCESS TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS TABLE C-1 State Laws -- Tobacco Purchase–Use–Possession Laws for Minors Penalties for PUP Explicitly Illegal for Violations Among State MLA Minors to… Classification Minors Alabama 19 Purchase, use, Not listed Fine and notify parent/ possess, transport guardian Alaska 19 Knowingly possess Violation Not listed Arizona 18 Purchase, possess, Petty offense Fine or community knowingly accept service Arkansas 18 Use, possess, Not listed Confiscate the tobacco purchase, or attempt product, may require to purchase community service and enrollment in tobacco education program California 18 Purchase, receive, Not listed Fine and community possess service Colorado 18 Purchase or attempt Class two Fine or participate to purchase petty offense in tobacco education program; may perform community service instead of fine Possession Noncriminal Not listed offense Connecticut 18 Purchase Not listed Fine Delaware 18 Purchase, accept Not listed Fine and community receipt of, use a service coupon for District of 18 Purchase, attempt to Not listed Fine Columbia purchase, possess, attempt to possess Florida 18 Knowingly possess, Not listed Fine or community purchase, attempt to service; minor must purchase attend anti-tobacco education Georgia 18 Purchase, attempt to Not listed Community service, purchase, possess attendance at a lecture on the hazards of smoking or both
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Not listed Tobacco, tobacco products, ü alternative nicotine products Not listed Tobacco products Not listed Tobacco products, vapor product ü including e-cigarettes, hookah, waterpipe Not listed Tobacco in any form, cigarette ü papers Not listed Tobacco product or paraphernalia Not listed Tobacco products Not listed Tobacco products Yes; increasing fines Tobacco products ü only Yes; more community Tobacco products ü service hours for second and subsequent offenses Yes; increasing fine for Cigarette or other tobacco ü fake ID product Yes Tobacco products ü ü Not listed Cigarettes or tobacco related objects continued
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318 MINIMUM AGE OF LEGAL ACCESS TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS TABLE C-1 Continued Penalties for PUP Explicitly Illegal for Violations Among State MLA Minors to… Classification Minors Hawaii 18 Purchase Not listed Fine Idaho 18 Purchase, receive, Misdemeanor Imprisonment and/or a sell, possess, use, fine; may also require distribute, consume attendance at tobacco awareness programs, community service Illinois 18 Purchase, possess Petty offense Fine and community service Indiana 18 Purchase, accepts Class C Fine for personal use or Infraction possess Iowa 18 Smoke, use, possess, Violation Fine and community purchase, or attempt service to purchase Kansas 18 Purchase, attempt to "Tobacco Fine purchase; possess or infraction" attempt to possess Kentucky 18 Possess or use Not listed Product is confiscated Purchase or accept Not listed Fine and community receipt of service Louisiana 18 Purchase or possess Not listed Fine Maine 18 Present fraudulent Civil violation Fine and/or community ID for the purposes service of purchasing/ possessing/using Maryland 18 Massachusetts 18 Michigan 18 Purchase, attempt to Misdemeanor Fine and community purchase, possess, service, health attempt to possess, promotion program use participation
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Yes, fine increases and Tobacco product or electronic community service for smoking device second and subsequent offenses Not listed Tobacco products or electronic ü cigarettes Yes Tobacco products ü Not listed Tobacco products or electronic cigarettes Yes; higher fines and Tobacco products ü more community service Not listed Cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products Not listed Tobacco products ü Yes; higher fines and Tobacco products more community service Yes; increase in fine Tobacco products Yes; increase in fine Tobacco products ü and community service Yes; increase in Tobacco product ü number of hours; fine stays the same continued
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320 MINIMUM AGE OF LEGAL ACCESS TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS TABLE C-1 Continued Penalties for PUP Explicitly Illegal for Violations Among State MLA Minors to… Classification Minors Minnesota 18 Use fraudulent ID to Misdemeanor If fake ID is used -- purchase, attempt to driver's license is purchase suspended Possesses, smokes, Petty If fake ID is used -- chews, ingests, misdemeanor driver's license is purchases, attempts suspended to purchase Mississippi 18 Purchase, possess Not listed Fine and/or community service Missouri 18 Purchase, attempt to Infraction Confiscation of purchase, possess product Montana 18 Knowingly possess or Not listed Fine and/or community use; purchase service/tobacco cessation education Nebraska 18 Use Class V Not listed misdemeanor Nevada 18 New 18 Purchase, attempt Violation Fine and/or community Hampshire to purchase, use, service, maybe also possess tobacco education New Jersey 19 New Mexico 18 Procure or attempt to Not listed Fine or community procure service New York 18 North 18 Purchase, accept Class two Not listed Carolina receipt, attempt to misdemeanor purchase or accept receipt North Dakota 18 Purchase, possess, Noncriminal Fine smoke, use offense Ohio 18 Consume, possess, Not listed Fine and/or tobacco purchase, attempt to education purchase
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Not listed Tobacco or tobacco related ü ü devices Not listed Tobacco or tobacco related devices Not listed Tobacco product ü Second offense: Cigarettes or tobacco products ü tobacco education/ smoking cessation program; none else listed Yes; increased fines Tobacco products listed Not listed Tobacco products ü Not listed Tobacco product, e-cigarette, ü liquid nicotine; rolling paper Not listed Tobacco products ü Not listed Tobacco products including ü tobacco derived products or vapor products Not listed Tobacco products ü Yes; increase fine, Tobacco products ü ü require community service, suspend license/learner permit continued
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322 MINIMUM AGE OF LEGAL ACCESS TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS TABLE C-1 Continued Penalties for PUP Explicitly Illegal for Violations Among State MLA Minors to… Classification Minors Oklahoma 18 Purchase, receive, Not listed; Fine, imprisonment possess if does not (only for the provide seller misdemeanor) when asked, misdemeanor Oregon 18 Purchase, attempt to Violation Tobacco education or purchase or acquire community service Possess Class D Not listed violation Pennsylvania 18 Purchase, attempt to Summary Fine and/or tobacco purchase offense education/community service/suspend license Rhode Island 18 Purchase Not listed Not listed Smoke, chew, possess Not listed Community service or tobacco education South 18 Purchase, attempt to Noncriminal Fine or tobacco Carolina purchase, possess, offense education or attempt to possess community service South Dakota 18 Purchase, attempt Class Two Not listed to purchase, receive, misdemeanor attempt to receive, possess, consume Tennessee 18 Purchase, possess, Civil offense Fine accept Texas 18 Possess, purchase, Not listed Fine and tobacco consume, accepts education or community service Utah 19 Purchase, attempt to Class C Fine and tobacco purchase, possess misdemeanor education Vermont 18 Possess, purchase, Not listed Confiscate product attempt to purchase and fine Virginia 18 Purchase, attempt to Not listed Fine or community purchase, possess service
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Increase in fine; may Tobacco products ü ü suspend driver's license Yes; subsequent Tobacco products ü ü offense = fine, suspend license Not listed Tobacco products Not listed Tobacco product ü ü Not listed Tobacco in the form of cigarettes, bidi cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff Not listed Tobacco in any form, cigarette papers Not listed Tobacco product, alternative ü ü nicotine product Not listed Tobacco products Yes; add tobacco Tobacco products ü education and community service for subsequent offenses Not listed Cigarette or other tobacco ü ü product Not listed Cigar, cigarette, e-cigarette, or ü tobacco in any form Not listed Tobacco products, tobacco ü ü substitutes or paraphernalia Yes, higher fine or Tobacco product more community service hours continued
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324 MINIMUM AGE OF LEGAL ACCESS TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS TABLE C-1 Continued Penalties for PUP Explicitly Illegal for Violations Among State MLA Minors to… Classification Minors Washington 18 Purchase, possess, Class Three Fine and/or community attempt to purchase, civil infraction service; maybe tobacco or obtain education West Virginia 18 Possess Not listed Fine and community service Wisconsin 18 Possess, purchase Not listed Not listed Wyoming 18 Possess, use, Misdemeanor Fine or community purchase, attempt to service or tobacco purchase cessation
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Not listed Tobacco products Yes, higher fine and Tobacco products more community service hours Not listed Tobacco products, nicotine ü products Yes, increase in fine Tobacco products ü
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