Bill Text: MI SB0118 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health; smoking; hookah tobacco smoking; require department to develop public awareness campaign regarding effects on health. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 12608b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-28 - Referred To Committee On Economic Development And Regulatory Reform [SB0118 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0118-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 118

 

 

January 28, 2009, Introduced by Senators CLARK-COLEMAN, CHERRY, CLARKE, BASHAM, GLEASON, BRATER, ANDERSON and JACOBS and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 12608b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 12608b. (1) On or before the expiration of 90 days after

 

the effective date of this section, the department shall develop

 

and disseminate a public awareness campaign about the health risks

 

associated with and legal requirements related to hookah tobacco

 

use. The department shall include all of the following in the

 

public awareness campaign developed under this section:

 

     (a) All known effects hookah tobacco use has on an

 

individual's health.

 

     (b) All known health risks associated with the use of a hookah

 

to smoke hookah tobacco, including the importance of cleaning and

 

sanitizing the hookah after each use.

 

     (c) All pertinent federal, state, or local laws, rules,

 

ordinances, regulations, guidelines, and other legal pronouncements

 

regarding the sale, taxation, storage, or handling of hookah

 

tobacco, including the prohibition on the sale of tobacco products

 

to minors.

 

     (d) Any other information the department considers

 

appropriate.

 

     (2) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Hookah" means a tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn

 

through water before reaching the lips and includes a narghile or

 

other similar instrument.

 

     (b) "Hookah tobacco" means a noncigarette smoking tobacco that

 

is smoked using a hookah, which tobacco may be flavored or

 

sweetened.

 

     (c) "Noncigarette smoking tobacco" means that term as defined

 

in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL

 

205.422.

 

     (d) "Tobacco product" means a product that contains tobacco

 

and is intended for human consumption, including, but not limited

 

to, a cigarette, noncigarette smoking tobacco, or smokeless

 

tobacco, as those terms are defined in section 2 of the tobacco

 

products tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL 205.422, and cigars.