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Businesses That Typically Need the License Convenience stores and gas stations Smoke shops and cigar lounges Vape shops and e-cigarette stores Liquor stores carrying tobacco Grocery and drug stores selling cigarettes Vending machine operators Who Is Exempt The state retailer license requirement does not apply to: Stores selling only paraphernalia (papers, pipes, lighters) without any tobacco or nicotine Locations also licensed for cannabis sales (state law forbids both at the same site, and AB 8 reinforces this prohibition starting January 1, 2026) Manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers (they need different CDTFA licenses, covered below) The Three Layers of California Tobacco Licensing California stacks three layers of regulation on tobacco retailers, and you must comply with all three: Skipping any one of these layers can shut your business down
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For smokers: making sense of pack math If you smoke one cigarette per hour during waking hours, say 16 hours a day, you would go through roughly 16 cigarettes per day, meaning a standard 20-count pack lasts just over a day
(b) The Seller must, on or before any Lot is imported into Australia for Sale, notify the Company as to: (i) whether the Seller will be selling the Lot in the course of carrying on an enterprise
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