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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79972</law_id><section_number>58.1-1031</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-439.12:01</reference><reference>58.1-623.2</reference><reference>59.1-200</reference><reference>9.1-209</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Enforcement of Illegal Sale or Distribution of Cigarettes Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Cigarette</span>&#x201D; means any product that contains nicotine, is intended to be burned or heated under ordinary conditions of use, and consists of or contains (i) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any substance not containing tobacco; (ii) tobacco, in any form, that is functional in the product, which, because of its <span class="dictionary">appearance</span>, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a <span class="dictionary">cigarette</span>; or (iii) any roll of tobacco wrapped in any substance containing tobacco which, because of its <span class="dictionary">appearance</span>, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a <span class="dictionary">cigarette</span> described in clause (i) of this definition.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Department</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Importer</span>&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in 26 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;5702 (k).
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Package</span>&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in 15 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;1332 (4).</p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 880, 901.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
