Pot’s OK, but no nicotine.
The reason is that it looks like smoking. They can’t allow anyone to do what looks like something they hate.
It’s for your own benefit COMRADES.
Fog machines are EVIL!!
E-cigs are a threat to tax revenue.
Follow the money...
That’s dumb, but not surprising. The Pot People have a better lobbying group behind them, complete with folklore and ginormously awesome epiphanies.
This ban is immoral when you look at the huge health and economic benefits of quitting smoking.
I can’t see any rational justification
“This ban, if passed, will have a more serious impact on businesses, though. Bars, restaurants, theaters and others lost business when smoking was banned, since smokers were feeling essentially ostracized. Vaping has allowed some of the smokers to not only kick the habit, but go out and take their trade back to those businesses. If this full ban goes into effect they’ll be driven back into the shadows.”
Nonsense.
Bars/restaurants lost business for a short while but that quickly reversed. Theaters never lost business because of it.
“E-cigarettes are currently unregulated, putting New Yorkers at risk. This legislation would protect those who want to avoid secondhand exposure.”
Yes, the Assembly Speaker actually said this. What a colossal pile of steaming poo poo.
I don’t want to ban smoking, I want to ban smokers.
If you try to stop them from smoking, they’ll chew and spit. They’re addicts. They’re compulsive. They aren’t the average of the large segment of society who used to smoke tobacco, they’re the last, concentrated, tempestuous cinder of that population. Reasonable smokers quit long, long ago. Tobacco addicts today are looking for a fight, and they’ll dump their ashtrays and bottles of spittle on you if you dare to defy them.