AWMA supports legislation cracking down on the remote sales of cigarettes by strengthening the 1949 Jenkins Act. A bill in the Senate, S. 1177 entitled the PACT Act (Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking), was approved unanimously by the Senate but never considered by the House. The bill strengthens the Jenkins Act – a law passed in 1949 requiring cigarette vendors that ship cigarettes into another state to anyone who is not a licensed distributor to report the sale to the state so the appropriate state excise taxes may be collected. Currently, this law is widely ignored by mail-order and Internet sellers and creates an unfair competitive advantage for those remote vendors.