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“Stop This Bill Now’: Tobacco control advocates sound alarm over proposed law

"In one of its most embarrassing contradictions, the bill defines non-combustible products to include heated tobacco products, then defines tobacco products to exclude all non-combustible products. The legal effect is that a product containing actual tobacco would cease to be treated as a tobacco product merely because it is heated rather than burned," the statement said.

“Stop This Bill Now’: Tobacco control advocates sound alarm over proposed law

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"In one of its most embarrassing contradictions, the bill defines non-combustible products to include heated tobacco products, then defines tobacco products to exclude all non-combustible products.

The legal effect is that a product containing actual tobacco would cease to be treated as a tobacco product merely because it is heated rather than burned," the statement said.

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"In one of its most embarrassing contradictions, the bill defines non-combustible products to include heated tobacco products, then defines tobacco products to exclude all non-combustible products. The legal effect is that a product containing actual tobacco would cease to be treated as a tobacco product merely because it is heated rather than burned," the statement said.

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