(A) No person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall buy any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco or tobacco in any of its forms. No person shall sell, buy for, distribute samples of or furnish any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco or tobacco in any of its forms, to any person under twenty-one (21) years of age.
(B) No person under twenty-one (21) years of age may sell any tobacco product at a retail establishment selling tobacco products. This subsection does not apply to a sales clerk in a family-owned business which can prove that the sales clerk is in fact a son or daughter of the owner.
(C) No person under twenty-one (21) years of age in the furtherance or facilitation of obtaining any tobacco product shall display or use a false or forged identification card or transfer, alter, or deface an identification card.
(D) No person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall possess any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or tobacco in any of its forms.
(E) A person shall not distribute without charge samples of any tobacco product to any other person, regardless of age:
(1) within a retail establishment selling tobacco products, unless the retailer has verified the purchaser’s age with a government issued identification;
(2) from a lunch wagon; or
(3) on a public way as a promotion or advertisement of a tobacco manufacturer or tobacco product.
This subsection (E) does not apply to the distribution of a tobacco product sample in any adult- only facility.
(F) Tobacco products listed in this Section may be sold through a vending machine only if such tobacco products are not placed together with any non-tobacco product, other than matches, in the vending machine and the vending machine is in any of the following locations:
(1) places to which persons under twenty-one (21) years of age are not permitted access.
(2) places where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on the premises and vending machine operation is under the direct supervision of the owner or manager.
(3) places where the vending machine can only be operated by the owner or an employee over age twenty-one (21) either directly or through a remote control device if the device is inaccessible to all customers.
(G) The sale or distribution by any person of a tobacco product in this Section, including but not limited to a single or loose cigarette, that is not contained within a sealed container, pack, or package as provided by the manufacturer, which container, pack, or package bears the health warning required by federal law, is prohibited.
(See 720 ILCS 675/1)