75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
 
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amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 2093
 
                         House Bill 2622
 
Sponsored by Representative BEYER; Representative TOMEI (at the
  request of Bill Flippen)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Requires sellers of tobacco products to also sell smoking
cessation products during hours tobacco products are sold.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to tobacco products; amending ORS 431.840.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 431.840 is amended to read:
  431.840. (1) It shall be unlawful to do any of the following:
  (a) To distribute free tobacco products to persons under 18
years of age as part of a marketing strategy to encourage the use
of tobacco products.
  (b) To fail as a retailer to post a notice substantially
similar to that set forth in subsection (3) of this section in a
location clearly visible to the seller and the purchaser that
sale of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age is
prohibited.
  (c) To sell cigarettes in any form other than a sealed package.
   { +  (d) To offer tobacco products for sale without also,
during the same hours that tobacco products are sold, offering
over-the-counter tobacco cessation products for sale. + }
  (2) As used in this section { + , + } 'tobacco products' means
bidis, cigars, cheroots, stogies, periques, granulated, plug cut,
crimp cut, ready rubbed and other smoking tobacco, snuff, snuff
flour, cavendish, plug and twist tobacco, fine-cut and other
chewing tobaccos, shorts, refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and
sweepings of tobacco and other kinds and forms of tobacco,
prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking
in a pipe or otherwise, or both for chewing and smoking, and
shall include cigarettes as defined in ORS 323.010 (1).
  (3) The notice shall be substantially as follows:
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                             NOTICE
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  The sale of tobacco in any form to persons under 18 years of
age is prohibited by law. Any person who knowingly sells, or
causes to be sold, tobacco to a person under 18 years of age
 
commits the crime of endangering the welfare of a minor, pursuant
to ORS 163.575.
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