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New York State Bans E-Cigarettes Everywhere Traditional Cigarettes Are Prohibited (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today: New York state is banning electronic cigarettes indoors everywhere that traditional tobacco cigarettes are prohibited, such as restaurants, bars and other workplaces. The ban goes into effect in 30 days, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Clean Indoor Air Act on Monday. About 70% of the state's cities already ban e-cigarettes, so the statewide policy captures the rest, according to the American Lung Association. Cuomo signed legislation in July that banned e-cigarettes in public and private schools. The industry, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates at $2.5 billion per year, contends that e-cigarettes are safer than traditional tobacco products. Smokers say inhaling the nicotine through a vapor produced by the devices helps them quit traditional cigarettes. But the New York State Health Department warned that vaping carries its own risks because the aerosol emissions can include formaldehyde, cadmium found in batteries, benzene found in gasoline and the industrial solvent toluene.
Don't do this and don't do that. 'Cause we know what's best for you and we're gonna pass laws that make you conform. Nanny,. nanny boo boo! Hell, by the time we're done, you'll serve prison time.
Thus sayeth the Nanny State.
Really? Well, make sure your other sources of water vapor don't infringe on anyone in public. Or an overly eager police officer could stretch the definition of vaping and give you a ticket.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Live and let live. Stop legislating stupid bicycle helmet type laws for people's own good. Stop being busy bodies.
I don't smoke and am not going to start. People that smoke generally do not prefer to vape. But the stories I hear personally about people that have quit because vaping is cheap and convent is very compelling. Vaping is not smoke and it doesn't carry like smoke. The thicker vapors actually settles down even faster.
I can see codified rules of etiquette such that a person if vaping they must yield and back off so many feet and also not vape in the immediate presence of service personnel. Simple courtesy and which should be codified as local ordinances and state and federal should have no hand in them.
How long before the laws that everyone must editorially wear surgical masks in public? Or when it because illegal to have sex without a condom? And lets not forget about a prohibition style law against eating meat many would like to see.