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The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (also known as the FSPTC Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009. This bill changed the scope of tobacco policy in the United States by giving the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products, similar to how it has regulated food and pharmaceuticals since the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
As of August 26, 2011, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had passed state legislation modeled on New York's original bill, mandating the sale of fire-safe cigarettes. [19] State laws generally contain provisions permitting the sale of non-FSCs that have been tax-stamped by wholesalers and retailers in the state prior to the effective ...
The alcohol laws of Kentucky, which govern the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in that state, lead to a patchwork of counties that are either dry (prohibiting all sale of alcoholic beverage), or wet (permitting full retail sales under state license), or "moist" (occupying a middle ground between the two).
Kentucky Revised Statute 243.115, for example, permits restaurants licensed under the state’s liquor laws to let a patron take one open container of wine from the establishment for consumption ...
Local bans on alcohol sales have been the norm for decades in Kentucky until only recently. As of 2011, more than a third of the state’s 120 counties remained legally dry .
State Year Code Notes California: 2005 CA LABOR CODE § 96(k) & 98.6 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities but has been interpreted by the courts as not creating any new substantive rights Colorado: 1990 CO REV. STAT. ANN § 24-34-402.5 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities Connecticut: 2003
State tobacco laws partly changed in 1992 under the George H.W. Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of eighteen to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse ...
Kentucky Revised Statute 186.170 is the commonwealth’s law on displaying license plates, and it states drivers are generally required to “conspicuously” display their plate on the rear of ...