As used in this chapter, certain terms and words are defined as follows:
(a) "Cigarettes" includes any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape, and whether or not such tobacco is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper, reconstituted cigarette tobacco, homogenized cigarette tobacco, cigarette tobacco sheet or any similar materials. The term cigarette includes both clove cigarettes and hand-rolled cigarettes.
(b) "Tobacco products" includes the proceeds, yield or final form of anything made up wholly or in part of the genus of the plant known as "nicotiana". Such products include but are not limited to cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff.
(c) "Alternative Nicotine Product" includes an electronic cigarette or any other product or device that consists of or contains nicotine that can be ingested into the body by any means, including, but not limited to, chewing, smoking, absorbing, dissolving or inhaling.
(d) "Electronic Cigarette" includes any electronic product or device that produces a vapor that delivers nicotine or any other substance to the person inhaling from the device to simulate smoking and that is likely to be offered to or purchased by consumers as an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo or electronic pipe.
(e) "Tobacco Product" means any product that is made from tobacco, including, but not limited to, a cigarette, a cigar, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, or snuff.
(f) "Age Verification" means a service provided by an independent third party (other than a manufacturer, supplier, producer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer of cigarettes, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or papers used to roll cigarettes) that compares information available from a commercially available database or aggregate of databases, that regularly are used by government and businesses for the purpose of age and identity verification to personal information provided during an internet sale or other remote method of sale to establish that the purchaser is eighteen years of age or older.
(g) "Sale" includes delivery, barter, exchange, transfer or gift, or offer thereof and each such transaction made by any person, whether as principal, proprietor, agent, servant or employee.
(h) "Possess" or "possession" means having control over a thing or substance, but may not be inferred solely from mere access to the thing or substance through ownership or occupation of the premises or property upon or in which the thing or substance is found.
(i) "Distribute" means to furnish, give, or provide cigarettes, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or papers used to roll cigarettes to the ultimate consumer of the cigarettes, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or papers used to roll cigarettes.
(j) "Smoke" means to burn any substance containing tobacco, including a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or other smoking device or material.
(k) "Use of tobacco " means to chew or maintain any substance containing tobacco , including smokeless tobacco in the mouth to derive the effects of tobacco .
(l) "Vending machine" means any mechanical or electronic device designed to receive a coin or token and in return dispenses a product.