# Business Regulation (GBR)

## Title 16. Cigarettes

### Subtitle 3A. Tobacco Product Vending Machines

#### Section 16-3A-01

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Owner" means the person that owns or operates an establishment in which a vending machine is located.

(c)

  (1) "Tobacco product" means any product that is:

    (i) intended for human inhalation, absorption, ingestion, smoking, heating, chewing, dissolving, or any other manner of consumption that is made of, derived from, or contains:

      (1) tobacco; or

      (2) nicotine; or

    (ii) an accessory or a component used in any manner of consumption of a product described in item (i) of this paragraph.

  (2) "Tobacco product" includes:

    (i) cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, and snus;

    (ii) electronic smoking devices; and

    (iii) filters, rolling papers, pipes, and liquids used in electronic smoking devices regardless of nicotine content.

  (3) "Tobacco product" does not include a drug, device, or combination product authorized for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

(d) "Vending machine" means any mechanical, electronic, or similar self-service device that on insertion of a coin, coins, token, or other similar means dispenses a tobacco product.

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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Reg. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)