Gov. Mary Fallin issues ban on electronic cigarettes, vapor devices due to potential health effects

AP, KJRH Tulsa ^ | 12/24/13 | AP

[DallasBiff]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Gov. Mary Fallin has issued an executive order that bans the use of electronic cigarettes and vapor devices on state property, saying the potential long-term health effects of the products are unknown.

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Fallin is an anti-smoking advocate and says that electronic cigarettes and similar products emit vapor that contains chemicals and can impact bystanders

[servantboy777]

Good grief! What has this country become?

[TADSLOS]

She’s with the UNIPARTY.

[DallasBiff]

control freaks and nothing more.Come on Oklahoma,fire this spert

Actually, she's a pretty good governor on financial issues, but she has Mayor Bloomberg fetish.

[TADSLOS]

Good grief! What has this country become?

A serfdom. Now, hand over your steam sticks...

[Viennacon]

I don’t smoke, but as far as I’ve heard, e-cigerettes have not been associated with any health woes. And they smell better too.

[berdie]

Unless we tax them out the wazoo.

I started using a vaporizer back in September. My nicotine cigarette use is down to about 1-2 a week. The nicotine level in the vaporizer is down to “3” out of “16”. AND..I haven’t piled on a lot of pounds. I can see a total end in sight.

Since I have smoked for 45 years...this is a big victory in the making for me.

All this whining about them now has to do with the lack of taxation and the young’uns using them to smoke illegal substances. Because there is no way the young’uns can figure out other ways, blunts...etc.

[servantboy777]

>>I don’t like bleu cheese much.<<

Don't be a hater!

[lodi90]

A lot of kids are using these to smoke drugs. The vaping craze is big time in Florida right now.

[cumbo78]

There is a BOOMING black market for marijuana based cartridges. People are even getting high on the Amtrak back and forth from NYC to DC.

[kingu]

Generally, for a law to be considered lawful, it must serve some public need. ‘Maybe’ harmful has never reached that particular threshold, and I strongly suggest that someone fighting this inane piece of directive should pull the court viewpoint from NY; nothing better than to use the same court reasoning that doomed Bloombergs big gulp banning.

[Democrat_media]

no more government laws at any level . we have enough.

how about a moratorium on new laws?

just repeal , starting with obamacare, then repeal the 1965 immigration act etc.

[TADSLOS]

I’d be high too if I rode Amtrack from NYC to DC.

[TomGuy]

the potential long-term health effects of the products are unknown.

That is an irrational rationale. If it were applied, half or more of the products ever invented or created could be banned by such a ridiculous reason.

Is Gov. Fallin another nannystater?

[TomGuy]

Does a mere governor have that power?

Lawyers are probably already lining up to challenge.

[Carriage Hill]

I think those e-cigs are more ‘direct injection’ of concentrated water vapor, than simple breathing. Whoops, it’s fluid and pus filling-up the lungs’ air sacs:

http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/pneumonia/understanding-pneumonia.html

No correlation between it and e-cigs, then. That said, I’ve been a 2-pack-a-day Marlboro Red smoker, for the past 51yrs, and my lungs are clear. No emphysema symptons, either.

[The KG9 Kid]

So.

[berdie]

I don’t doubt your word at all. The thing that makes me wonder would be the odor. In certain non-nicotine blends of vaporizer fluid there is an odor. I think the odor of marijuana would be really hard to disguise.

I’m told mine smells like cotton candy.

[unixfox]

Gov. Mary Fallin has issued an executive order

Does a mere governor have that power?

All these "orders" Eventually people ignore them. Which they should.

[txhurl]

I don’t like bleu cheese much.

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It is an acquired taste. The key is to start out with fresh blue, with fruit, then later move on to the aged blues.

If you can get a blue brie, it might make the acquaintance easier.

[Democrat_media]

in other news Bloomberg bans large Sodas. And democrats rejoice and bend down to their god, government