As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A product, not consisting of or containing tobacco, that provides for the ingestion into the body of nicotine, whether by chewing, absorbing, dissolving, inhaling, snorting or sniffing, or by any other means. "Alternative nicotine product" does not include cigarettes, tobacco products or vapor products, or a product that is regulated as a drug or device by the United States Food and Drug Administration under Chapter V of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.[1]
[Added 3-23-2023 by Ord. No. 23-02]
Any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, or any substitute for tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of tobacco or any substitute for tobacco being flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper or any other material. However, this definition is not to be construed to include cigars.
A container of any kind in which cigarettes or tobacco products, alternative nicotine products or vapor products are offered for sale, sold or otherwise distributed to consumers.
[Amended 3-23-2023 by Ord. No. 23-02]
Means and includes any place where cigarettes are sold or where cigarettes are stored within or without the State of Iowa by the holder of an Iowa permit or kept for the purpose of sale or consumption; or if sold from any vehicle or train, the vehicle or train on which or from which such cigarettes are sold shall constitute a place of business; or for a business within or without the state that conducts delivery sales, any place where alternative nicotine products or vapor products are sold or where alternative nicotine products or vapor products are kept for the purpose of sale.
[Amended 3-23-2023 by Ord. No. 23-02]
Every person who sells, distributes or offers for sale for consumption, or possesses for the purpose of sale for consumption, cigarettes, alternative nicotine products or vapor products, irrespective of the quantity or amount or the number of sales.
[Amended 3-23-2023 by Ord. No. 23-02]
Any manner of product display, placement or storage from which a person purchasing the product may take possession of the product, prior to purchase, without assistance from the retailer or employee of the retailer, in removing the product from a restricted access location.
The following: cigars; little cigars; cheroots; stogies; periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready-rubbed and other smoking tobacco; snuff; snuff flour; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing or dissolving tobaccos; shorts or refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or otherwise, or for both chewing and smoking, but does not mean cigarettes.
[Ord. No. 12-04]
Any noncombustible product, which may or may not contain nicotine, that employs a heating element, power source, electronic circuit or other electronic, chemical or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to produce vapor from a solution or other substance. "Vapor product" includes an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe or similar product or device, and any cartridge or other container of a solution or other substance, which may or may not contain nicotine, that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe or similar product or device. "Vapor product" does not include a product regulated as a drug or device by the United States Food and Drug Administration under Chapter V of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
[Added 3-23-2023 by Ord. No. 23-02]
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Editor's Note: The definition of "carton," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 3-23-2023 by Ord. No. 23-02.