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Delaware bill (HB 241) would ban e-cig sales to minors, referred to House Judiciary Cmte
www.legis.delaware.gov - Official web site of First State Legislature
http://www.legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+241/$file/legis.html?open
This bill would define e-cigs as "tobacco substitutes" (but the definition wouldn't include e-liquid, dissolvables, skin cream or other new "tobacco substitutes").
(11) Tobacco substitute means any device employing a mechanical heating element, battery, or circuit, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to deliver nicotine into the body through inhalation and that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for tobacco cessation or other medical purposes, or any noncombustible product containing nicotine intended for use in such a device that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for tobacco cessation or other medical purposes.
The definitions of "vapor products" and "alternative nicotine products" in other bills are far more comprehensive than this definition.
Other problems with the bill are several false and misleading fear mongering claims about e-cigs in the "Whereas" findings (that should be eliminated from the bill).
Since current Delaware law prohibits all self serve displays of all tobacco products (i.e. no exemption for tobacco specialty stores), this bill also would ban all self service displays of all "tobacco substitutes".
www.legis.delaware.gov - Official web site of First State Legislature
http://www.legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+241/$file/legis.html?open
This bill would define e-cigs as "tobacco substitutes" (but the definition wouldn't include e-liquid, dissolvables, skin cream or other new "tobacco substitutes").
(11) Tobacco substitute means any device employing a mechanical heating element, battery, or circuit, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to deliver nicotine into the body through inhalation and that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for tobacco cessation or other medical purposes, or any noncombustible product containing nicotine intended for use in such a device that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for tobacco cessation or other medical purposes.
The definitions of "vapor products" and "alternative nicotine products" in other bills are far more comprehensive than this definition.
Other problems with the bill are several false and misleading fear mongering claims about e-cigs in the "Whereas" findings (that should be eliminated from the bill).
Since current Delaware law prohibits all self serve displays of all tobacco products (i.e. no exemption for tobacco specialty stores), this bill also would ban all self service displays of all "tobacco substitutes".
