Last updated: March 7, 2022
Key Terms
Content or Ingredient
“Content or ingredient” includes tobacco, components including materials used to manufacture those components, additives, processing aids, residual substances found in tobacco, and substances that migrate from the packaging material into the product.
The definition of "content or ingredient" is significant because the law regulates contents and ingredients of tobacco products.
Characterizing Flavor
“Characterizing flavor” means a taste or smell, other than one of tobacco, resulting from a natural or artificial additive or a combination of additives, including but not limited to, fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, menthol, alcohol, spice or herbs which is noticeable before or during the consumption of the tobacco product.
The definition of “characterizing flavor” is significant because the law prohibits the manufacture, import, wholesale, distribution, and sale of a tobacco product with a characterizing flavor.
