{
 "citation": "14:91.6",
 "heading": "Unlawful distribution of sample tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or",
 "doc_id": "78715",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78715",
 "classification": "M",
 "enacted_year": "1988",
 "last_amended_year": "2022",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "C",
   "text": "Whoever violates a provision of this Section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars upon conviction.",
   "los_min": "",
   "los_max": "",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:91.6\n\n\u00a791.6. Unlawful distribution of sample tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or\nvapor products to persons under age twenty-one; penalty\n\nA. No person shall distribute or cause to be distributed to persons under twenty-one\nyears of age a promotional sample of any tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or\nvapor product.\n\nB. For purposes of this Section, the following definitions apply:\n\n(1) \"Alternative nicotine product\" means any non-combustible product containing\nnicotine that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, absorbed, dissolved, or\ningested by any other means. \"Alternative nicotine product\" does not include any of the\nfollowing:\n\n(a) Tobacco product.\n\n(b) Vapor product.\n\n(c) Product that is a drug pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(g)(1).\n\n(d) Device pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(h).\n\n(e) Combination product described in 21 U.S.C. 353(g).\n\n(2) \"Cigar\" means any roll of tobacco for smoking, irrespective of size or shape, and\nirrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredients,\nwhere such roll has a wrapper made chiefly of tobacco.\n\n(3) \"Cigarette\" means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco,\nirrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or\nmixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper, or\nany other material, except where such wrapper is wholly or in greater part made of tobacco.\n\n(4) \"Smokeless tobacco\" means any finely cut, ground, powdered, or leaf tobacco\nthat is intended to be placed in the oral or nasal cavity.\n\n(5) \"Smoking tobacco\" means granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and any\nother kind and form of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for smoking in a\npipe or cigarette.\n\n(6) \"Tobacco product\" means any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or smoking\ntobacco.\n\n(7) \"Vapor product\" means any non-combustible product containing nicotine or other\nsubstances that employs a heating element, power source, electronic circuit, or other\nelectronic, chemical or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to\nproduce vapor from nicotine in a solution or other form. \"Vapor product\" includes any\nelectronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product\nor device and any vapor cartridge or other container of nicotine in a solution or other form\nthat is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic\ncigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. \"Vapor product\" does not include any\nof the following:\n\n(a) Product that is a drug pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(g)(1).\n\n(b) Device pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(h).\n\n(c) Combination product described in 21 U.S.C. 353(g).\n\nC. Whoever violates a provision of this Section shall be fined not less than one\nhundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars upon conviction.\n\nActs 1988, No. 709, \u00a71; Acts 2014, No. 278, \u00a71, eff. May 28, 2014; Acts 2021, No.\n403, \u00a71; Acts 2022, No. 34, \u00a71."
}