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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Protect Children and the Public from Vapor from Electronic Smoking Devices’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1.  22 MRSA §1541, sub-§1-A  is enacted to read:
 
1-A.  Electronic smoking device.     "Electronic smoking device" means a device used to deliver nicotine or any other substance intended for human consumption that may be used by a person to simulate smoking through inhalation of vapor or aerosol from the device, including, without limitation, a device manufactured, distributed, marketed or sold as an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic pipe, electronic hookah or so-called vape pen.
Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §1541, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 342, §1 and affected by §9, is amended to read:
 
6. Smoking.   "Smoking" includes carrying or having in one's possession a lighted or heated cigarette, cigar,or pipe or other object giving off tobacco smokea lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for human consumption through inhalation whether natural or synthetic in any manner or in any form. "Smoking" includes the use of an electronic smoking device.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report, changes the bill's title, replaces the defined term "electronic cigarette" with a new term, "electronic smoking device," and definition and amends the definition of "smoking" to include use of an electronic smoking device.