[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2184 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2184

  To require the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to 
issue regulations limiting the advertising of cigarettes and smokeless 
           tobacco over the Internet, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 1, 1996

Mr. Lautenberg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to 
issue regulations limiting the advertising of cigarettes and smokeless 
           tobacco over the Internet, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tobacco-Free Children's Internet Act 
of 1996''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall apply:
            (1) Child.--The term ``child'' means an individual who has 
        not attained the age of 18.
            (2) Cigarette.--The term ``cigarette'' means any roll of 
        tobacco wrapped in--
                    (A) paper or any substance not containing tobacco; 
                or
                    (B) tobacco if, because of its appearance, type, 
                packaging, or labeling, the roll wrapped in tobacco is 
                likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as 
                a cigarette.
            (3) Commissioner.--The term ``Commissioner'' means the 
        Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
            (4) Internet; interactive computer service.--The terms 
        ``Internet'' and ``interactive computer service'' have the 
        meaning given those terms in section 230(e) of the 
        Communications Act of 1934.
            (5) Smokeless tobacco.--The term ``smokeless tobacco'' 
        means any cut, ground, powdered, or leaf tobacco that, because 
        of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling is likely to be 
        offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a tobacco product to 
        be placed in the oral or nasal cavity.

SEC. 2. REGULATIONS.

    As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Commissioner shall issue regulations limiting the advertising of 
cigarettes and smokeless tobacco over the Internet or other interactive 
computer service within the United States in a manner consistent with 
the regulations issued by the Commissioner on August 28, 1996, at 61 
Fed. Reg. 44396 et seq.
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