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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-1001" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Administrative Component” means the component of the Program that is established under § 13-1014 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Baseline Tobacco Study” means the study that is conducted under § 13-1003 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Cigarette Restitution Fund” means the fund that is established under § 7-317 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Community Health Coalition” means a coalition established under § 13-1008(b)(1) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Comprehensive Plan for Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation” means a plan that is developed under § 13-1008(b)(2) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Counter-Marketing and Media Component” means the component of the Program that is established under § 13-1013 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“County” includes Baltimore City.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Local health officer” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The head of a county health department; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person designated by the Department under § 13-1008(g) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Local Public Health Component” means the component of the Program that is established under § 13-1006 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Local Public Health Tobacco Grant” means a grant distributed by the Department to a county under §§ 13-1006 through 13-1012 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Maryland Adolescent Survey” means the Maryland Adolescent Survey that is administered by the Maryland State Department of Education.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Master Settlement Agreement” means the Master Settlement Agreement executed by the State and participating tobacco manufacturers.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Minority individual” means a woman or an individual of African American, Hispanic, Native American, or Asian descent.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“National Public Education Fund” means the National Public Education Fund that was established under the Master Settlement Agreement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Program” means the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program established under § 13-1002 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Statewide Public Health Component” means the component of the Program that is established under § 13-1005 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Surveillance and Evaluation Component” means the component of the Program that is established under § 13-1003 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Targeted minority population” means a minority population to which the tobacco industry disproportionately marketed tobacco products.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Targeted minority population” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Women; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Individuals of African American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian descent.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="t">
    <text>“Task Force Report” means the report entitled “Making Maryland the Tobacco Free State” that was issued in December 1999 by the Governor’s Task Force to End Smoking in Maryland.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="u">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Tobacco product” means any product that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Intended for human inhalation, absorption, ingestion, smoking, heating, chewing, dissolving, or any other manner of consumption that is made of, derived from, or contains:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Tobacco; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Nicotine; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An accessory or component used in any manner of consumption of a product described in item (i) of this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Tobacco product” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, and snus;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Electronic smoking devices; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Filters, rolling papers, pipes, and liquids used in electronic smoking devices regardless of nicotine content.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Tobacco product” does not include a drug, device, or combination product authorized for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="v">
    <text>“Uninsured individual” means an individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For whom the appropriate treatment is not covered by private health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, or the Maryland Children’s Health Program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Who the Department determines does not have the financial means to pay for appropriate treatment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="w">
    <text>“Youth Tobacco Survey” means the Youth Tobacco Survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administered by the Department with the assistance of the Maryland State Department of Education.</text>
  </level>
</section>
