Trends · data through September 2026

Vape & Tobacco Shops in California

Iceflower tracks 1,763 stores from 1,466 vape & tobacco shops in California. Rodeo Smoke Shop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cigarettes For Less and Cigarettes 4 Less.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,466
Tracked stores
1,763
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked vape & tobacco shops

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Rodeo Smoke Shop and Cigarettes For Less sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Rodeo Smoke Shop - +18.5%
2 C Cigarettes For Less ▲4 +15.1%
3 C Cigarettes 4 Less ▲2 +14.4%
4 B Bumble Bee Botanicals ▲3 +13.7%
5 Z Z Smoke Shop ▲3 +13.0%
6 S Smoke Shop - +11.0%
7 E Elite Smoke Shop ▲3 +10.0%
8 P Payless Cigarettes ▲3 +9.9%
9 D Discount Cigarettes - +7.7%
10 R Royal Smoke Shop ▲4 +5.4%
11 C Cigarettes Cheaper - +5.4%
12 S Smoke 4 Less - +5.0%
13 U USA Smoke & Vape ▲1 +3.2%
14 S Smoke Zone ▲2 -4.0%
15 T The Smoke Shop ▲2 -4.5%
  • Cigarette World
  • Smoke Shop
  • Buddiez Smoke and Vape
  • Discount Cigarettes
  • Vibez Smoke
  • Smoke City And More
  • Speedy's Smoke Shop
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,763 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cigarette World (2)
  • Smoke Shop (23)
  • Buddiez Smoke and Vape (1)
  • Discount Cigarettes (14)
  • Vibez Smoke (1)
  • Smoke City And More (1)
  • Speedy's Smoke Shop (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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