VA ALERT! HB 93: Flavored tobacco products; sale or distribution prohibited, civil penalty.

This measure bans flavored tobacco products and creates civil penalties.

Specifically, this measure bans the sale or distribution of flavored “tobacco products”, which means a cigarette or an alternative nicotine product, a heated tobacco product, liquid nicotine, loose leaf tobacco, moist snuff, nicotine vapor product, or a tobacco product that contains a constituent that imparts a characterizing flavor.This measure creates civil penalties of $1,000 for a first offense and $5,000 for a second or subsequent such offense.