The following words and phrases, wherever used in this chapter shall have the meanings defined in this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE: An electronic device that can be used to deliver an inhaled dose of nicotine, or other substances, including any component, part, or accessory of such a device, whether or not sold separately. "Electronic smoking device" includes any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an electronic cigarette, an electronic cigar, an electronic cigarillo, an electronic pipe, an electronic hookah, or any other product name or descriptor.
ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE PARAPHERNALIA: Cartridges, cartomizers, e-liquid, smoke juice, tips, atomizers, electronic smoking device batteries, electronic smoking device chargers, and any other item specifically designed for the preparation, charging, or use of electronic smoking devices.
HOOKAH: Glass or metal water pipe usually decorated and shaped somehow like a bottle or small tank with a long flexible core pipe also known as a shisha, nargile, hubble bubble, nag, or Turkish water pipe.
HOOKAH LOUNGE: An area of a commercial establishment, whether enclosed, indoor or outdoor, designated specifically for the use of hookahs, but does not include private use of hookahs in personal residences, if otherwise in compliance with applicable law.
SMOKE SHOP: A retail or wholesale business or any person that sells, offers for sale or offers to exchange for any form of consideration, tobacco, tobacco products, electronic smoking devices or electronic smoking device paraphernalia or tobacco paraphernalia and has ten percent (10%) or more of its square feet in the establishment used for the sale or display of tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco paraphernalia, electronic smoking devices or electronic smoking paraphernalia or advertising.
SMOKING LOUNGE: A commercial establishment or portion thereof where electronic smoking devices, tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, hookah pipes or any of these are used by persons on the premises, but does not include any private residence.
TOBACCO PARAPHERNALIA: Any item designed or marketed for the consumption, use, or preparation of Tobacco Products.
TOBACCO PRODUCT:
(A) Any 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, snuff; or
(B) Qny electronic device that delivers nicotine or other substances to the person inhaling from the device, including, but not limited to an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic pipe, or electronic hookah.
(C) Notwithstanding any provision of subsections (A) and (B) to the contrary, "Tobacco Product" includes any component, part, or accessory intended or reasonably expected to be used with a Tobacco Product, whether or not sold separately.
"Tobacco Product" does not include any 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 such product is marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose. (Ord. 2016-02, 3-7-2016; amd. Ord. 2022-1, 3-21-2022)