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

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4. Despite section 2, a group whose tobacco-related activity is limited to acting or having acted as a wholesaler or retailer of tobacco products is considered a tobacco product manufacturer only if it is or was related to a group that manufactures or manufactured, or causes or caused another group to manufacture, tobacco products.
Similarly, a group whose tobacco-related activity is limited to deriving or having derived revenues from research on, or the manufacture, marketing or promotion of, tobacco products, or to engaging or having engaged, or causing or having caused another group to engage, in research on or the marketing or promotion of tobacco products is considered a tobacco product manufacturer only if
(1)  it is or was related to a group that manufactures or manufactured, or causes or caused another group to manufacture, tobacco products; or
(2)  it is or was related to a group that is or was a trade association whose principal activity consists or consisted in promoting the interests of tobacco product manufacturers, or in engaging, or causing another group to engage, in research on or the marketing or promotion of tobacco products.
2009, c. 34, s. 4.