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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends federal postal law to make all types of tobacco products nonmailable. Includes as tobacco products cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, pipe tobacco, and roll-your-own tobacco.</p> <p>Requires tobacco products attempted to be mailed to be disposed of as the Postal Service directs.</p> <p>Provides a civil penalty for each mailing violation.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable.</title>
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