We both live in MD. I'm quite nervous about mail order. Premium cigars (little ones are illegal) and pipe tobacco are the only tobacco products allowed to be shipped from out of State. On 8/8 all ecig products and hardware are tobacco products. Without a specific exemption they will fall outside of cigar/pipe tobacco exemption. So shipping here may become illegal simply by default. And it sucks.
If anyone is interested, here's the law:
"Out-of-State Retailers In Maryland, premium cigars and pipe tobacco are the only tobacco products that legally may be shipped directly to a consumer by an out-of-state retailer. Cigarettes and all other types of tobacco products may not be shipped directly to a consumer. All out-of-state retailers who ship premium cigars and pipe tobacco to consumers in Maryland require the consumer to affirmatively indicate that he or she is at least18 years of age which is Maryland’s legal age for purchasing tobacco. Most states require that purchasers be at least 18 years old at the time of purchase, but a few states require purchasers to be 19 years old resulting in some retailers requiring all purchasers to be 19 years old or older in every state.
Most retailers use an independent age verification service, such as Veritad, to verify the purchaser’s age. These systems use a combination of public records to develop a series of personal knowledge multiple choice questions that, presumably, only the purchaser could answer. If the age cannot be verified through these systems, the retailers require direct telephone contact to attempt other means of verifying the purchaser’s age, generally by obtaining a copy of a driver’s license or some other government identification with photograph. While out-of-state retailers of premium cigars and pipe tobacco work to verify the age of purchasers during the ordering process, there are no statutory requirements for the delivery agent to verify the age of the recipient"