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RCW 26.28.080

Selling or giving tobacco to minor—Belief of representative capacity, no defense—Penalty.

Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach (1982)

Most recently applied in City of Auburn v. Hedlund (February 2009)

2019 c 15 s 1; 2016 sp.s. c 38 s 1; 2013 c 47 s 1; 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 437

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 6113-S.SL) ***

(1) A person who sells or gives, or permits to be sold or given, to any person under the age of twenty-one years any cigar, cigarette, cigarette paper or wrapper, tobacco in any form, or a vapor product is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

(2) It is not a defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the person acted, or was believed by the defendant to act, as agent or representative of another.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "vapor product" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 70.345.010.

Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.