Recently Passed (Due to Legislative Override of Veto) and signed into law in Missouri:
SENATE BILL NO. 841
It establishes, in the definition section that electronic cigarettes are not to be classified as tobacco products. This saves them from taxes that are levied on tobacco products! The relevant sections:
"tobacco products", any substance containing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, or dipping tobacco but does not include alternative nicotine products, or vapor products;"Vapor product", any non-combustible product containing nicotine that employs a heating element, power source,electronic circuit, or other electronic, chemical or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to produce vapor from nicotine in a solution or other form. Vapor product includes any electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device and any vapor cartridge or other container of nicotine in a solution or other form that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. Vapor product does not include any alternative nicotine product or tobacco product;
I've never been a big fan of the Missouri Legislature, but you know what they say about giving a monkey a typewriter. On a long enough timeline he'll type the Declaration of Independence. They apparently did the legislative equivalent here. Now they can get back to passing meaningless right wing laws that are overturned by the US Supreme Court...
SENATE BILL NO. 841
It establishes, in the definition section that electronic cigarettes are not to be classified as tobacco products. This saves them from taxes that are levied on tobacco products! The relevant sections:
"tobacco products", any substance containing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, or dipping tobacco but does not include alternative nicotine products, or vapor products;"Vapor product", any non-combustible product containing nicotine that employs a heating element, power source,electronic circuit, or other electronic, chemical or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to produce vapor from nicotine in a solution or other form. Vapor product includes any electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device and any vapor cartridge or other container of nicotine in a solution or other form that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. Vapor product does not include any alternative nicotine product or tobacco product;
I've never been a big fan of the Missouri Legislature, but you know what they say about giving a monkey a typewriter. On a long enough timeline he'll type the Declaration of Independence. They apparently did the legislative equivalent here. Now they can get back to passing meaningless right wing laws that are overturned by the US Supreme Court...