Connecticut tobacco and nicotine laws

What it would do: Requires cigarette dealers and electronic nicotine delivery system dealers to limit tobacco product sales to fifty percent of annual gross revenue and twenty-five percent of retail floor space. Prohibits new registrations in towns exceeding one dealer per 2,500 residents.

What it would do: Requires dealers selling electronic nicotine delivery systems and vapor products to obtain dealer registrations, maintain compliance bonds of at least $250,000, verify customer age, and keep detailed records. Requires manufacturers to register products with the Department of Consumer Protection by January 1, 2027, and establishes penalties for violations.

What it would do: Extends the deadline for tobacco bars to commence operations from December 31, 2022 to December 31, 2025, and reduces the municipal population requirement from eighty thousand to forty thousand, while allowing smoking and vaping in qualifying tobacco bars that meet specified requirements.

What it would do: Requires cannabis establishments to submit samples to testing laboratories per Commissioner standards. Modifies electronic nicotine delivery system dealer registration requirements, specifying who may deliver cannabis, and updates pharmacist availability requirements at hybrid retailers and dispensary facilities.

What it would do: Allows infused beverage manufacturers to make beverages exceeding three milligrams THC per container for out-of-state sale, permits wholesalers to exclusively sell infused beverages, extends cannabis license terms, and modifies hemp product labeling requirements.

What it would do: Expands the definition of cigarettes to include heated tobacco products, prohibits shipping cigarettes and tobacco products except to licensed distributors or government officials, and restricts shipping electronic nicotine delivery systems and vapor products to registered dealers or government officials, with age verification requirements.

What it would do: Requires the Commissioner of Consumer Protection to permanently revoke the registration of an electronic nicotine delivery system dealer and order its permanent closure if state or municipal authorities seize cannabis or cannabis products from that dealer on at least three occasions.

What it would do: Establishes a task force to study the feasibility of implementing density requirements for retailers that sell tobacco and tobacco-related products.

What it would do: Establishes escalating penalties for convenience stores engaging in unlicensed tobacco or cannabis sales: second offense requires double the initial fine, third offense requires triple the fine plus five-day closure, fourth offense requires triple the fine plus thirty-day closure, and fifth offense results in permanent closure.

What it would do: Amends section 30-22a of the general statutes to reduce the minimum municipal population requirement for tobacco bars from eighty thousand to forty thousand and reduce the square footage requirements applicable to tobacco bars by fifty percent.

What it would do: Imposes an excise tax of seventy-five percent on the sale of non-tobacco nicotine products.

What it would do: Amends Connecticut general statutes to revise or establish requirements regulating nontobacco nicotine products, including synthetic nicotine products, electronic nicotine delivery systems, and vapor products, to increase public awareness of health risks and establish penalties to deter misuse and underage access.

What it would do: Amends title 12 of the general statutes to equalize tax rates between combustible and noncombustible tobacco and nicotine products to promote uniform tax treatment.

What it would do: Prohibits new retailers from selling tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems, and vapor products within one thousand feet of a school, or within the same distance as a municipality's existing alcohol sales restriction near schools.

What it would do: Amends section 53-344 of the general statutes to exempt sellers' agents or employees from requesting proof of age for tobacco purchases if the person has previously presented a driver's license or identity card establishing they are twenty-one years of age or older.