Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 22950.5

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For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health. (b) “Enforcing agency” means the State Department of Public Health, another state agency, including, but not limited to, the office of the

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For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a)
“Department” means the State Department of Public Health.
(b)
“Enforcing agency” means the State Department of Public Health, another state agency, including, but not limited to, the office of the Attorney General, or a local law enforcement agency, including, but not limited to, a city attorney, district attorney, or county counsel.
(c)
“Smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant
product intended for inhalation, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. “Smoking” includes the use of an electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking.
(d)
(1)
“Tobacco product” means any of the following:
(A)
A product containing, made, or derived from tobacco or nicotine that is intended for human consumption, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, or snuff.
(B)
An electronic device that delivers nicotine or other vaporized liquids to the person inhaling from the
device, including, but not limited to, an electronic cigarette, cigar, pipe, or hookah.
(C)
Any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product, whether or not sold separately.
(2)
“Tobacco product” does not include a product that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product or for other therapeutic purposes where the product is marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose.

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  For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health. (b) “Enforcing agency” means the State Department of Public Health, another state agency, including, but not limited to, the office of the Attorney General, or a local law e…