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The clause Read the last eleven words again Which is the only spine in this library that can reach the bottle The four cannabis properties now cover four relationships And the consequence is about shipping So nothing you do to the container changes the outcome The device definition is broader than its name Which this property quotes and does not interpret There is a stated exception Then there is our own problem References

Component, liquid, part, or accessory. A bottle on its own is capable of being one.

The clause

The definition includes "any component, liquid, part, or accessory of a device described in subparagraph (A), without regard to whether the component, liquid, part, or accessory is sold separately from the device".

Read the last eleven words again

Without regard to whether it is sold separately from the device. Selling a part on its own does not take it outside the definition.

Which is the only spine in this library that can reach the bottle

Everywhere else a container is the thing around a regulated product. Here a component can be the regulated article itself.

The four cannabis properties now cover four relationships

In edibles the container size decides the label. In concentrates the container is the unit a limit is measured in. In tinctures the container is irrelevant. Here it can be the subject.

And the consequence is about shipping

Not about shape, size, material or printing. A cigarette is nonmailable, and the definition of cigarette includes an electronic nicotine delivery system.

So nothing you do to the container changes the outcome

There is no size that exits the definition and no material that does. The chain runs on what the thing is, not on how it is made.

The device definition is broader than its name

It covers a device that "through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor, or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device". Flavor, or any other substance.

Which this property quotes and does not interpret

Whether a particular product is within the definition is a determination, and a container catalog has no standing to make it.

There is a stated exception

For a product approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a cessation product or for another therapeutic purpose, and marketed and sold solely for that purpose. Narrow, and quoted in full in the definition section.

Then there is our own problem

Every container indexed to this group is glass, and an e-liquid bottle is squeezed. That has its own page and it is not a legal problem.

References

15 U.S.C. 375(7). Subparagraph (A) "means any electronic device that, through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor, or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device". Subparagraph (B) includes an e-cigarette, an e-hookah, an e-cigar, a vape pen, an advanced refillable personal vaporizer, an electronic pipe, and at (vii) "any component, liquid, part, or accessory of a device described in subparagraph (A), without regard to whether the component, liquid, part, or accessory is sold separately from the device". Subparagraph (C) excludes a product "approved by the Food and Drug Administration for-- (I) sale as a tobacco cessation product; or (II) any other therapeutic purpose" and "marketed and sold solely for a purpose described in clause (i)". law.cornell.edu

18 U.S.C. 1716E(a)(1): "All cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (as those terms are defined in section 1 of the Act of October 19, 1949, commonly referred to as the Jenkins Act) are nonmailable and shall not be deposited in or carried through the mails." The section does not define cigarette itself; it takes the definition from the Jenkins Act, codified at 15 U.S.C. 375. A rulemaking followed Pub. L. 116-260 and this property does not summarize it. law.cornell.edu

Nothing in this property states whether any particular product or container is an electronic nicotine delivery system. It does not address registration, reporting or age-verification obligations, the Postal Service rulemaking that followed, state law, or whether a product containing no nicotine is within the definition. The statutory text is quoted so it can be read; the application is a determination made elsewhere.

Written from 15 U.S.C. 375 and 18 U.S.C. 1716E and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Nothing here states whether any particular product or container is an electronic nicotine delivery system, and nothing here addresses registration, reporting or age-verification obligations, the Postal Service rulemaking that followed, or state law. Every container indexed to this group is glass, and an e-liquid bottle is squeezed: the 24 LDPE containers inside the same capacity window exist in our catalog and are not routed here.