HB 110 Summary

• Raises minimum age to purchase, sell, exchange, or possess tobacco, nicotine products, and electronic smoking products from 19 to 21 years old in Alaska.

• Expands prohibition on selling these products to minors to include electronic smoking products and nicotine-containing products, with limited exceptions for FDA-approved tobacco cessation products prescribed by healthcare professionals or provided by state programs.

• Creates new restrictions on shipping and transporting tobacco and electronic smoking products, requiring age verification for direct-to-consumer sales and imposing criminal penalties (class A misdemeanor) and civil penalties (up to $5,000) for violations.

• Imposes 75 percent excise tax on electronic smoking products at wholesale price, applying same tax framework as tobacco products, with exceptions for non-nicotine products and FDA-approved therapeutic devices.

• Effective date is January 1, 2022; minors charged with possession must be referred to tobacco education programs instead of receiving fines.