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NYC bans e-cigarettes in indoor public places because they look too much like cigarettes (bloomberg)
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Posted on 12/20/2013 10:04:47 PM PST by chessplayer

Are they banning them because e-cigs are dangerous? Nope, not really. No one’s reached any firm conclusion that they’re harmful and pretty much everyone agrees that they’re less harmful than real cigarettes.

No, the reason public “vaping” needed to be banned is that it simply looks too much like smoking.


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To: old and tired

It is very hard to smell vapor from ecigarettes. An enclosed car? Maybe.

Many vapers use sweet, fruit flavored juices. The tobacco flavors don’t smell bad, they just don’t smell like tobacco.


21 posted on 12/21/2013 4:09:59 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: old and tired

I’ve never even seen one of these, but my granddaughter tells me they smell. One of her teachers uses them during the schoolday. I asked her if she was sure she wasn’t smelling the regular cigarettes her teacher smokes when school’s not in session. SHe wasn’t sure. Anybody know?
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They have the horrid stench of water vapor. In other words, no discernible smell at all.


22 posted on 12/21/2013 4:14:16 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: chessplayer

It’s about criminalizing the thought of smoking.


23 posted on 12/21/2013 4:18:42 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: TigersEye

He’s great...”the big apple is run by the worms”


24 posted on 12/21/2013 4:47:58 AM PST by BOOHA
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To: chessplayer

Words can’t adequately convey how grateful I am for needing absolutely NOTHING to do with the fascist shithole NYC has become.


25 posted on 12/21/2013 4:48:39 AM PST by tomkat (..sooner, rather than later..)
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To: chessplayer

unfuckingreal


26 posted on 12/21/2013 5:09:24 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: chessplayer

They look nothing like cigarettes. The only thing they have in common is the tubular shape. They are easily distinguishable from cigarettes.


27 posted on 12/21/2013 5:16:40 AM PST by stilloftyhenight (call it ODemocratcare)
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To: chessplayer

The upside to this may be that the Nazis are angering people who otherwise just went along.


28 posted on 12/21/2013 5:22:23 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: funfan

E-cigs -— no smell, nothing offensive other than the sight of another human being minding their own business and enjoying themselves.

New York is a quagmire of buffoonery and they all deserve each other.

As for me, I puff mine everywhere — in the airports, on airplanes, in malls, movie theaters, restaurants. On planes, the person sitting next to me rarely ever notices I’m puffing mine. You can be discreet.

I consider it a personal challenge to puff them anywhere they are banned!


29 posted on 12/21/2013 8:31:58 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: old and tired
...my granddaughter tells me they smell.

It depends on the flavoring in the liquid used in them.

I've been using e-cigs, also known as PVs (personal vaporizers) for 4-1/2 years and I've noticed a lot of different smells from them: no scent at all, sweet, aromatic, musty, even a burnt rubber smell.

My wife used to like a liquid that tasted like vanilla and caramel-flavored tobacco but its room scent reminded me of a smoldering rotten log.

30 posted on 12/21/2013 11:10:42 AM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: BOOHA
And then he apologized to worms. It was a great rant.

"So now we're making laws for stupid people?"

31 posted on 12/21/2013 11:51:39 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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