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County wants to ban public e-cigarette smoking (King Co; WA State)
The Seattle P.I. ^ | December 13, 2010 | VANESSA HO

Posted on 12/13/2010 7:37:59 PM PST by Stoat

Five years after Washington residents voted to ban smoking cigarettes, cigars and pipes in public places, King County wants to add one more thing to the list: Electronic cigarettes.

The 2006 state law banned smoking in bars and restaurants on the basis that second-hand smoke causes cancer and other diseases. King County's rationale for adding e-cigarettes, also known as battery-powered nicotine-delivery devices, to the list of forbidden acts is a little different.

The fake cigs, from which users inhale vaporized nicotine, don't emit smoke. Rather, they produce a less-smelly, combustion-free mist.

But public health officials say they're so similar to the real thing that they make tobacco enforcement difficult and often prompt smokers to think it's OK to light up in public. And that leads to second-hand smoke, health officials reason.

"The idea is that even though they're not exactly identical to cigarettes, people see folks using e-cigarettes, and they think somebody else is smoking," said Bud Nicola, a King County Board of Health member and affiliate professor with the University of Washington School of Public Health. "It makes it very difficult for inspectors."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: antismoking; ecigarettes; ecigs; fascism; nannystate; pufflist; smokenazis; smoking; wa; washington; washingtonstate
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If King County's proposal is passed, it's believed it would be the strictest in the country. A handful of states and other jurisdictions have some e-cigarette rules, but none as comprehensive as the one proposed here.

 

For some reason, I'm not at all surprised that King Co. /Seattle would be the most aggressive in this, or any other arena that pertains to the restriction or banning of a legal substance or commodity.

1 posted on 12/13/2010 7:38:01 PM PST by Stoat
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To: sionnsar; Baynative

Washington State Ping Request


2 posted on 12/13/2010 7:38:46 PM PST by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat

banning something because it might incite someone to do something that is banned.

A NEW LOW.


3 posted on 12/13/2010 7:39:54 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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To: Stoat

And the smoke nazi’s keep on goose stepping...

Now the mere appearance of smoking must be criminalized...


4 posted on 12/13/2010 7:40:26 PM PST by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompetence..)
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To: Stoat
For some reason, I'm not at all surprised

Honestly, is anyone?

The day of e-smokers being able to "light up" in public are numbered.

5 posted on 12/13/2010 7:40:42 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Gabz; SheLion; martin_fierro

6 posted on 12/13/2010 7:42:52 PM PST by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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Ahh but the one thing they didn’t count on.. the ecig is stealthy. If you hold in the vapor, no evidence of smoking at all. Hold it in your hand just right and no one can even tell.

I say its time for some open defiance of these stupid laws.


7 posted on 12/13/2010 7:43:17 PM PST by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Stoat

I don’t smoke, but this place sounds a leetle too fascist for my taste.


8 posted on 12/13/2010 7:43:42 PM PST by La Lydia
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“It makes it very difficult for inspectors.”

AKA Butt Sniffers.


9 posted on 12/13/2010 7:44:09 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Drew68

Not suprising for the King Co. loons. These people just want control and for nobody to challenge it, just like Russians.


10 posted on 12/13/2010 7:44:32 PM PST by ully2 (ully)
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To: Stoat

Smoke em if you’ve got em.


11 posted on 12/13/2010 7:45:56 PM PST by Redcitizen
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Government scum!
The ecig is the reason I quit smoking after thirty years.
Now they want to ban it because it scares people?


12 posted on 12/13/2010 7:46:27 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: ully2
Not suprising for the King Co. loons. These people just want control and for nobody to challenge it, just like Russians.

King Co. today, everywhere else tomorrow (and for the same reasons).

13 posted on 12/13/2010 7:50:46 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Stoat

BS. Let’s ban the public health officials.


14 posted on 12/13/2010 7:52:57 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Stoat

If it gives someone pleasure, there is somebody out there trying to ban it.


15 posted on 12/13/2010 7:52:57 PM PST by Husker24
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To: eXe
I say its time for some open defiance of these stupid laws.

It's kinda sad how compliant Americans are. Go to some of the airports in Europe and you'll see people light up right next to a "No Smoking" sign without a care in the world.

16 posted on 12/13/2010 7:53:13 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Stoat

Screw these nazi bastards.


17 posted on 12/13/2010 7:54:43 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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"It makes it very difficult for inspectors."

Uh, how about: If you don't smell smoke, there is no smoke? Too simple, I guess.

18 posted on 12/13/2010 7:56:50 PM PST by KJC1
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To: ully2
"These people just want control and for nobody to challenge it, just like Russians."

Yep...it's not about second-hand smoke...it's about control. The TSA won't let you take an e-cig on a plane, and smokeless tobacco is banned as well.

19 posted on 12/13/2010 8:01:57 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: KJC1

If there’s no tobacco leaves in it and no fire on the end what’s the difficulty. Pffft. Absurd on it’s face!


20 posted on 12/13/2010 8:05:00 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
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