2013 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 11 - Public Health, Housing, Environment
Chapter 431 - State and Local Administration and Enforcement of Health Laws
Section 431.840 - Free distribution to minors prohibited; restriction on sales; notice.
(1) It shall be unlawful to do any of the following:
(a) To distribute free tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age as part of a marketing strategy to encourage the use of tobacco products.
(b) To fail as a retailer to post a notice substantially similar to that set forth in subsection (3) of this section in a location clearly visible to the seller and the purchaser that sale of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age is prohibited.
(c) To sell cigarettes in any form other than a sealed package.
(2) As used in this section "tobacco products" means bidis, cigars, cheroots, stogies, periques, granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed and other smoking tobacco, snuff, snuff flour, cavendish, plug and twist tobacco, fine-cut and other chewing tobaccos, shorts, refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco and other kinds and forms of tobacco, prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or otherwise, or both for chewing and smoking, and shall include cigarettes as defined in ORS 323.010 (1).
(3) The notice shall be substantially as follows:
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The sale of tobacco in any form to persons under 18 years of age is prohibited by law. Any person who knowingly sells, or causes to be sold, tobacco to a person under 18 years of age commits the crime of endangering the welfare of a minor, pursuant to ORS 163.575.
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Note: 431.840 to 431.853 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 431 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
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