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802-1 802. TOBACCO PRODUCTS 802.005 PURPOSE AND INTENT Because the City of Little Canada recognizes that tobacco use has been shown to be the cause of several serious health problems which subsequently place a financial burden on all levels of government; this ordinance is intended to regulate the sale of tobacco, tobacco-related devices, and electronic delivery devices for the purpose of enforcing and furthering existing laws, and to protect youth and young adults against the serious effects associated with use and initiation. Youth and young people are particularly susceptible to the addictive properties of tobacco products, and are particularly likely to become lifelong users. National data show that about 95 percent of adult smokers begin smoking before they turn 21. The ages of 18 to 21 are a critical period when many smokers move from experimental smoking to regular, daily use. Electronic delivery device use among youth has recently tripled. Young minds are particularly susceptible to the addictive properties of nicotine. As a result, approximately 3 out of 4 teen smokers end up smoking into adulthood. This ordinance is intended to regulate the sale of tobacco, tobacco-related devices, and electronic delivery devices to protect the public, especially youth and young adults, and to further the official public policy of the state in regard to preventing young people from starting to smoke as stated in Minn. Stat. § 144.391, as it may be amended from time to time. 802.010. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this regulation, the following terms shall mean: (a) “General Sales and Display” means a section of any business establishment not meeting the definition of Tobacco Store in paragraph (e) of this section, which displays for sale Licensed Products as an accessory use to the establishment’s primary business purpose. The sale of such Licensed Products shall be merely incidental to the establishment’s primary business purpose. The section displaying Licensed Products shall comprise an area no greater than fifty (50) cubic feet and must be located within the immediate vicinity of the establishment’s primary point of sale. There can be no entrance door from the outside opening directly to the section of store displaying Licensed Products. A separate point of sale for Licensed Product sales shall be prohibited. (b) "Tobacco Product" means any product containing, made, or derived from tobacco that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means, or any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product including but not limited to cigarettes; cigars; cheroots; stogies; perique; granulated, plug-cut, crimp-cut, ready rubbed and other smoking tobacco; snuff; snuff flowers; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing tobaccos; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco and other kinds and forms of tobacco, prepared in