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BILL NUMBER: SJR 8 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 25, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Senator Corbett MAY 19, 2009 Relative to electronic cigarettes. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SJR 8, as amended, Corbett. Electronic cigarettes. This measure would request that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibit all sales of electronic cigarettes until they have been found by FDA to be safe the FDA has found them to be safe . Fiscal committee: no.
WHEREAS, The chemical nicotine is classified as a drug due to its stimulative, sedative, and addictive qualities; and
WHEREAS, More that than 90 percent of smokers who seek to quit their addiction to nicotine fail, most relapsing within one week on current nicotine replacement systems approved by the FDA; and
WHEREAS, Extended exposure to nicotine results in tolerance, requiring escalating doses of the drug to receive the desired stimulation; and
WHEREAS, Withdrawal symptoms from nicotine include cognitive and attention defects, cravings, inability to sleep, and sleep disturbance; and
WHEREAS, An unregulated product called electronic cigarettes is currently being marketed as a smokeless alternative to traditional cigarettes; and
WHEREAS, Electronic cigarettes are rechargeable, battery operated drug delivery devices that look similar to cigarettes and allow the user to inhale a smokeless vapor often containing nicotine; and
WHEREAS, Electronic cigarette producers market their product to children by utilizing shopping mall kiosks and locations frequented by children, (and the cigarette police will go after them if they are selling to children) and
WHEREAS, These marketing efforts are similar to previous attempts by the big tobacco companies to entice children to use nicotine products. Previous campaigns have included products such as cigarette candy and advertisements with cartoon characters and flashy packaging shame on them, I still have not received my Betty Boop PV! ; and
WHEREAS, Studies show a correlation between children who used cigarette candy and adults who are current or former smokers; and
WHEREAS, The federal Food and Drug Administration has previously banned nicotine lollipops and nicotine lip balm, which the FDA approved (I made that up); and
WHEREAS, A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that teens were more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette marketing than by peer pressure. Similarly, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that as much as one-third of underage experimentation with smoking was attributable to tobacco company marketing efforts; and
WHEREAS, Electronic cigarettes may increase the number of young smokers (PhhhhhhhT); and
WHEREAS, According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, over 3,600 people under the age of 18 18 years of age begin smoking daily (we still have not figured out how to stop this), 1,100 of whom will become regular smokers. One-third of these young smokers will die of smoking-related illnesses, and do not forget about smokers who have up to 40 year smoking habits who are in the health system now; and
WHEREAS, It is in the best interest of California to protect children from these products, to include all illicit (the word that cannot be mentioned here) which we still have not figured out how to do; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature calls upon local, state, and federal governments to find ways to prevent the use of nicotine products by children (don’t forget Illicit “”s); and be it further
Resolved, That the Legislature requests that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has jurisdiction over the regulation of nicotine products, prohibit all sales of electronic cigarettes until they have been found by that FDA to be safe the FDA has found them to be safe (Honey, you got this backwards) ; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice
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