The agreement bars any efforts by the tobacco companies or their lobbyists to oppose eight specified kinds of new state or local tobacco-control legislation or administrative rules, which include measures to: 1) restrict youth access to vending machines; 2) include cigars in the definition of tobacco products; 3) enhance enforcement of laws forbidding sales of tobacco products to youth; 4) support the use of new technology to enforce age-of-purchase laws; 5) limit promotions of non-tobacco products that use tobacco products as prizes or giveaways; 6) enforce access restrictions through penalties on youth possession or use; 7) limit tobacco product advertising or the wearing of tobacco logo merchandise in or on school properties; and 8) limit non-tobacco products designed to look like tobacco products (e.g., candy cigarettes). The tobacco companies can, however, continue lobbying against any measures within these categories if they had already begun opposing them prior to the settlement agreement's restrictions going into effect. They are also free to lobby against legislation that includes both provisions within these categories and provisions that are not listed.
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