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a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no cigarette or tobacco product shall be sold, offered for sale, or distributed from a vending machine or appliance, or any other coin or token operated mechanical device designed or used for vending purposes, including, but not limited to, machines or devices that use remote control locking mechanisms. (b)

(1) Commencing January 1, 1996, cigarette or tobacco product vending machines or appliances may be located at least feet away from the entrance of a premise issued an on-sale public premises license as defined in

Section by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages.

(2) As used in this subdivision “at least feet away from the entrance” means within the premises of the licensed establishment and not outside those premises. (

c) This

section and subdivision (

b) of

Section set forth minimum state restrictions on the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products from vending machines or devices and do not preempt or otherwise prohibit the adoption of a local standard that further restricts access to and reduces the availability of cigarette or tobacco products from vending machines or devices or that imposes a complete ban on the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products from vending machines or devices. A local standard that further restricts or imposes a complete ban on the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products from vending machines or devices shall control in the event of an inconsistency between this

section and a local standard.