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.

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Nanny State

[sharkbiter]

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.

Re: Nanny State

[coastwalker]

Wrong. As a former smoker I actually enjoy tobbacÄi smoke, never mind vaping. This law is hysterical and vindictive. No wonder folk voted for Trump, America is being pussified by leftist snowflakes.

Screw Nanny state

[rsilvergun]

I just want to be able to go places without my eyes watering and my throat hurting. If you're not desensitized to it it's pretty awful. Yes, even vaping.

Re:Why the nicotine hate

[superwiz]

And let's ban caffeine vapors in 2nd-hand caffeine inhalation (supermarket isles and all hot caffeinated beverages). Say, are you a mormon? Oh, and, of course, 2nd-hand alcohol inhalation by anyone smelling alcohol vapors under any circumstances. And don't forget gasoline vapors. What else can we ban that doesn't hurt anyone in marginally small amounts?

Re:Not a big deal

[superwiz]

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.

This is what is wrong with this country.

[BlueCoder]

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.

Re:IMHO

[cloud.pt]

You sound like the type of person who would "defend" his rights from the top of a hotel room in Las Vegas.

Re:IMHO

[stealth_finger]

Thank you, the one voice of sanity in this thread so far.

All the assholes arguing about private property rights can shove their hypocrisy up their asses. My body is my principal piece of property and if your fucking drugs trespass upon it I will defend it with violence if necessary. Put whatever the fuck you want into your own lungs, but keep it the fuck out of mine or suffer the consequences you worthless ash-holes.

Here's an idea. How about you fuck off, and then keep fucking off until you can't fuck off anymore and then when you've done that, fuck off again.

Re:Sounds like fun

[Opportunist]

Exactly, there are no studies indicating whether its harmful or not, therefore i would greatly prefer not to be inhaling a cocktail of chemicals which may have as yet unknown detrimental effects on my health.

Then you should probably move to a remote island without any kind of industry or civilization.