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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
SMOKING TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN COUNTY FACILITIES
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 30 Environment, Article VIII. Clean Indoor Air, Division 1. Generally, Section 30-901 of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows:
Sec. 30-901. Smoking Tobacco Products policy for in County Facilities.
(a) Definitions.
"Cook County facilities" or "County facilities" means all Cook County owned or leased facilities, including, without limitation, Cook County facilities housing administrative offices, courthouses, detention facilities, clinics, hospitals, jails, storage facilities, garages and field locations.
"Electronic cigarette" means any electronically actuated device which in operation causes the user to exhale any smoke, vapor, or other substance other than those produced by unenhanced human exhalation. "Electronic Cigarette" includes any device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an electronic cigarette, an electronic cigar, an electronic cigarillo, an electronic pipe, an electronic hookah, or under any other product name or descriptor. The term "electronic cigarette" does not include any asthma inhaler or other device that has been specifically approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration
"Tobacco product" for the purposes of this Sec. 30-901, means any product in leaf, flake, plug, liquid, or any other form, containing nicotine derived from tobacco, which product is intended to enable human consumption of the tobacco or nicotine, whether chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by other means. The term "Tobacco products" excludes any product that has been specifically approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product or for other medical purposes, where such product is marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose.
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