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City Council seeks ban on e-cigarettes in public places as high-tech successor to smoking ban
The New York Daily News ^ | November 27, 2013 | Annie Karni

Posted on 11/30/2013 8:33:59 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

First the city banned smoking in most public places. Now it’s moving to snuff out the use of smokeless electronic cigarettes as well.

The City Council announced Wednesday that it will hold a hearing Wednesday on a bill prohibiting the use of the battery-operated, tobacco-free vaporizers in restaurants, offices, parks, beaches and other places where smoking regular cigarettes is not allowed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: addiction; antitobaccoscam; chicago; christinequinn; ecigs; followthemoney; health; nannystate; niconazis; nicotine; nyc; scam; smokingban; smokingiscool; teens
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To: JennysCool

Without a doubt.


21 posted on 11/30/2013 9:59:59 PM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Marcella

It’ll be hard for anyone to take banning of e-smokes serious. I sat next to a guy on a plane trip this summer....very nervous type. The minute we took off....he pulled out the e-smokes devices and puffed away. I was sitting within inches of him, and the device....never smelling anything. It didn’t bother me, and it helped this guy chill-out.

I wouldn’t have a single problem with folks flipping over to the e-smokes device and making it their primary delivery vehicle.


22 posted on 12/01/2013 12:39:54 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The drug companies want exclusive rights to the CHANTIX® market.


23 posted on 12/01/2013 12:48:44 AM PST by Bratch
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To: PhiloBedo
They’re banning these because they look bad? Or are they just upset that the free market has found a way around they’re control?

More likely because some folks might "suffer damage" due to thinking that someone is smoking within 27 miles of them.

24 posted on 12/01/2013 5:10:48 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

As an analogy to the banning of “assault rifles.” If it looks like you are smoking then it should be illegal. When these things are illegal there will be a push to make putting the tip of a ballpoint pen in your mouth illegal or a straw if the other end isn’t in a drink. You won’t be able to hold a pencil a certain way or draw a picture of a cigarette.


25 posted on 12/01/2013 5:24:56 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What do these POS expect people who smoke and want to quit to do? Oh that’s right they want them to go back to smoking taxable cigarettes! I thought as Democrats these scumbags were the champions of the people.


26 posted on 12/01/2013 5:33:00 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What will our president do?


27 posted on 12/01/2013 7:06:45 AM PST by billhilly (Has Pelosi read it yet?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Those people are mocking us! How dare they mock us with their fake cigarettes! Don’t they know who we are and how good and smart we are?” Liberals.....so full of themselves.


28 posted on 12/01/2013 7:59:35 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: pepsionice
“I was sitting within inches of him, and the device....never smelling anything.”

That's because the only thing coming out of the mechanical device is a bit of water vapor.

Two people on this thread sent me a Freepmail about the blu e-cigs I'm using. I tried two different ones before blu and dumped them. The best thing about blu is the hard case that looks like a hard case pack of cigs. You keep that hard case charged and when you leave the house take it with you as it has a charged cig in there and extra cartridges. With that, you won't run out of a cig when you leave the house. Take a charged one with you plus this hard case and that's two charged you have when you go somewhere.

29 posted on 12/01/2013 9:07:38 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
I should have added this:

When you are out and your cig goes dead, take the charged one out of the case and put the spent one in the space inside the case and it will recharge - that's because you had the case charged before you left the house. So you have a recharger with you to keep charging a cig.

My son and I went out to the hill country of Texas and I had no trouble keeping a cig charged since I had the case that kept charging one while I was “smoking” the other one. I took the cord that charges the hard pack so when we were in a hotel, I plugged in the hard case so it was ready the next day to keep charging a cig when I used up the other one. I hope this description makes sense to you as to how to use that hard case.

30 posted on 12/01/2013 9:13:52 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
I use Vapor 4 Life products....verboten in most public places here in Kalifornia, but I do it anyway - big huff, pop in pocket, and any likely whiner will think they were just imagining things, since there's no leftover evidence or burning smokestick in hand.

....been "using" for close to 2 years now without looking back even once.

31 posted on 12/01/2013 9:20:24 AM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Remember that these are the same people who speak so derisively of the Puritans.


32 posted on 12/01/2013 11:42:09 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“But, but we hated cigs because they stink!” Convenient Conservative FReepers...

Well, when we told ya it was all about control. Now, will you get it or will you hop on this bandwagon too?


33 posted on 12/02/2013 11:08:45 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Gabz

Hear, hear!


34 posted on 12/02/2013 11:14:25 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM

They’ll never get it.


35 posted on 12/02/2013 11:26:21 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Gabz
Sorry, but I'm sick of these people, and many of them are FReepers.

You're at a website where the bulk of the posters by and large cheer on the drug war and using the heavy hand of the police state to force people to do as they're told and the behavior of the tobacco nazis here is somehow shocking?

36 posted on 12/02/2013 11:26:54 AM PST by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Orangedog

The interesting thing is many of the tobacco nazis are the ones decrying the drug war.


37 posted on 12/02/2013 11:53:20 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Back in the days when people could smoke, people on commercial jets were not accosted upon landing by a Law Enforcement Officer telling them they should consult their physician because there was an active tuberculosis case on board.

Every one of those jets had a compact-car hole in the back that kept the air moving.

Alas, no more. Unintended consequences.

38 posted on 12/02/2013 12:00:29 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Gabz

Most people can’t be dared to care about something until and unless it’s their ox being gored. I was warning the tobacco nazis a decade ago to enjoy their “victory” over the smokers because next up on the list was going to be them and their fat, happy meal eating kids since they were such useful pawns in the tobacco war. I’m largely content to let them learn the hard way.


39 posted on 12/02/2013 12:01:47 PM PST by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Orangedog

I started dealing with the tobacco nazis in 1988, back when we didn’t have the internet for doing our research. In the early 90’s I had friends who worked in the tobacco industry who were truly impressed with the information I came up with.

One part of me is also content to let them learn the hard way, but most of me can’t because I see where it is all going to lead -and it’s scary.


40 posted on 12/02/2013 12:56:10 PM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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