Freedom to Use Nicotine
Category: Recreational Drug Use
Strength: Legalize
The World Assembly,
Recognizing that some citizens, subjects and/or residents of member states choose to ingest nicotine through various means,
Observing that in most cases use of nicotine does not pose grave social harm,
Aware that different means of ingesting nicotine pose different levels of threat to health,
Hereby:
1. Defines for the purposes of this resolution:
A. Nicotine Product: any product which contains nicotine with quantities sufficient to be psychoactive, and is not intended for purposes other than ingesting nicotine;
B. Tobacco Product: any nicotine product physically containing the leaves and/or stems of the plants from the genus Nicotiana, such items include but are not limited to smokeless tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, and pipe tobacco;
C. Vapor Product: any nicotine product which is used through the process of vaporization of a carrier substance and does not involve combustion of the carrier substance, such as electronic cigarette fluid;
D. Associated Product: any non-nicotine product, or non-tobacco product which is used in association with the acts of vaping or smoking, such items include but are not limited to, pipes, lighters, tampers, ash trays and vaping devices;
E. Smoking: the act of burning a tobacco product for the purposes of inhaling the smoke thereof, in order to ingest nicotine;
F. Vaping: the act of vaporizing a carrier liquid nicotine product without burning it for the purposes of ingesting nicotine, I.E. as in an electronic cigarette;
G. Smokeless Tobacco: any tobacco product whose use does not require the act of smoking or vaping in order to ingest nicotine, such products include but are not limited to chewing tobacco, oral snuff, nasal snuff and snus;
2. Requires member states to permit the ownership, sale and use of nicotine products, tobacco products, vapor products, and associated products by adult citizens, subjects and/or residents;
3. Permits member states to regulate, tax and/or restrict to adults nicotine products, tobacco products, vapor products and associated products as is deemed necessary and appropriate;
4. Permits member states to regulate nicotine products designed for and intended for medical use as they would any other medical drug or device;
5. Permits member states to regulate or restrict advertisements for nicotine products as deemed necessary and appropriate;
6. Allows member states to promote nicotine abstinence and/or harm reduction strategies in anti-smoking campaigns, if applicable, as deemed necessary and appropriate.