2314-S AMH HOLJ LONG 134

SHB 2314 - H AMD

By Representative Holmquist

   On page 49, beginning on line 24, strike everything through page 61, line 10, and insert:

"PART XI

TOBACCO SALES PROHIBTED

   NEW SECTION. Sec. 1101. A new section is added to chapter 9.91 RCW to read as follows:

   (1) It is unlawful for any person to sell any cigarette or tobacco product.

   (2) As used in this section:

   (a) "Cigarette" means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper or any material, except where such wrapper is wholly or in the greater part made of natural leaf tobacco in its natural state.

   (b) "Tobacco product" means cigar, cheroot, stogie, perique, 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."

   Correct internal references and the title.

EFFECT: Prohibits the sale of all cigarettes and tobacco products.