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<br />tobacco product imparts a characterizing flavor or (iii) taken action directed to
<br />consumers that would be reasonably expected to cause consumers to believe the
<br />tobacco product imparts a characterizing flavor.
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<br />(f) “Hookah” means a type of waterpipe, used to smoke shisha or other tobacco
<br />products, with a long flexible tube for drawing aerosol through water. Components of a
<br />hookah may include heads, stems, bowls, and hoses. This definition applies only to this
<br />article.
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<br />(c)(g) "Person" means any natural person, partnership, cooperative association,
<br />corporation, personal representative, receiver, trustee, assignee, or any other legal
<br />entity, and includes the definition of "person" found in Section 1 -2 of the Code.
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<br />(d)(h) "Proprietor" means a person with an ownership or managerial interest in a
<br />business. An ownership interest shall be deemed to exist when a person has a ten
<br />percent (10%) or greater interest in the stock, assets, or income of a business other
<br />than the sole interest of security for debt. A managerial interest shall be deemed to exist
<br />when a person can or does have or share ultimate control over the day -to-day
<br />operations of a business.
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<br />(e) "Tobacco paraphernalia" means cigarette papers or wrappe rs, pipes,
<br />holders of smoking materials of all types, cigarette rolling machines, and any other item
<br />designed for the smoking, preparation, storing, or consumption of tobacco products.
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<br />(i) “Shisha tobacco product” means a tobacco product smoked or intende d to
<br />be smoked in a hookah. “Shisha tobacco product” includes, and may be referred to as,
<br />hookah tobacco, waterpipe tobacco, maassel, narghile, and argileh. “Shisha tobacco
<br />product” does not include any electronic devices, such as electronic hookah, elec tronic
<br />cigarette, or electronic tobacco product.
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<br />(f)(j) “Tobacco product" means any of the following: (1) any substance
<br />containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco,
<br />hookah tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, bidis, or any other
<br />preparation of tobacco; or (2) any product or formulation of matter containing
<br />biologically active amounts of nicotine that is manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or
<br />otherwise distributed with the expectation that the product or matter will be introduced
<br />into the human body, but does not include any product specifically approved by the
<br />United States Food and Drug Administration for use in treating nicotine or tobacco
<br />product dependence. (1) a product containing, made or derived from tobacco or nicotine
<br />that is intended for human consumption, smoked, heated or chewed, absorbed,
<br />dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed or ingested by any other means, including but not
<br />limited to, cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco or snuff; (2) an
<br />electronic device that delivers nicotine or other vaporized liquids to the person inhaling
<br />from the device, including but not limited to, an electronic cigarette, cigar, pipe or
<br />hookah; (3) any component, part or accessory of a tobacco product whether or not sold
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