R-2.2.0.0.1 - Tobacco-related Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act

Section 12 Disposition versions

2009-06-19

12. When exercising the right to recover tobacco-related health care costs under this Act, the Government may bring an action on a collective basis to recover the costs incurred for all recipients of health care required following exposure to one or more types of tobacco product, or on an individual basis, to recover the costs incurred for certain particular recipients of that health care.

Each of the following products, as well as any combination of those products, constitutes a type of tobacco product: cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, nasal snuff, oral snuff and any other form of tobacco prescribed by regulation.

2009, c. 34, s. 12.