Posted on 03/05/2014 3:55:53 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban the use of electronic cigarettes, popularly known as "vaping," from restaurants, bars, nightclubs and other public spaces within the nation's second-largest city.
If signed into law by Mayor Eric Garcetti, the measure would take effect in 30 days, said Tony Arranaga, spokesman for Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, one of the sponsors of the bill.
Los Angeles would join a growing list of cities, including New York and Chicago, that restrict the use of e-cigarettes, battery-powered cartridges filled with nicotine liquid that create an inhalable vapor when heated.
At stake is the future of an industry that some analysts believe will eventually overtake the $80 billion-a-year tobacco business.
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That should be good for businesses outside of LA City limits.
And just what are they banning here? The vaporization of propylene glycol which is found in soap, shampoo, cake, salad dressing, mouthwash, toothpaste, ice cream, soda. Can you say “not about health but about fascism”? The ONLY reason they are doing this is because the leftists are ticked off that people have found a back door to smoking “What I don’t like must be banned”. Despot Mike Bloomberg of NYC use to do the same thing. He banned gas powered scooters because he said it hurt the environment, so people started riding electric ones instead. So he banned that!
What about French fries and pencils? They look like cigarettes too.
Well, it depends on the type of doll :-)
Nice! I'll take your word for it.
Coming soon to a city near us, I’d wager.
Make the e-cig look Ilke a penis. The gals in Frisco would be all for that.
The anti-smoker cartel, pharmaceutical companies, and governments are losing money, it’s not the tobacco companies with the greasy lobbyists any more.
The anti-smoker cartel needs people using actual tobacco products to stay in business because that is how they get funded. Big Pharma is losing big bucks to the e-cig industry because they have proven far more successful for people wanting to quit smoking than any gum or patch has done.
I can’t think of any other industry that is chained by the lobbying and advertising restrictions as the tobacco industry. It is unbelievable.
Vancouver B.C. has a “safe injection site”; where intravenous users of illegal drugs can shoot up, under the supervision of specially-trained nurses.
This site is part of a “harm-reduction strategy”, which is strongly supported by many of the very same people, who are behind draconian anti-smoking laws (and by many others of the same ilk). They want to ban vaporizers, because they might “renormalize” smoking. Meanwhile, they can’t see how a government-sponsored “safe” injection site might normalize the injection of heroin, cocaine, crack, meth, etc. It’s positively mind-boggling.
Somehow laws like this— with no actual logical reason for their existence— need to be challenged. Massive civil disobedience? They really should be required to show cause for a new law... For why it must be passed.
Is there anyone sane on any of California’s leftist cities councils?
Leftists are never happy unless they have SOMETHING to ban....
Once again, non-science dictating policy. This action is an example of what these Lefties are doing: They want to make nicotine users second class citizens.
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah whatever. Good luck enforcing that. Here in the Democratic People’s Republic of New Jersey big Pharma companies and their front groups peddling Nicotine gums and patches in cinnamon and peppermint flavor duped part-time legislators into passing a similar ban.
Nobody cares.
I could sit in my office all day and vape as much as I want. You could Use an ecig in a restaurant as long as you don’t exhale the vapor.
This will not help big Pharma funded front groups reward their paymasters and sell any more cinnaburst NRT gum for $60 at WalMart.
Kids have already figured out how to fill them with marijuana. It eliminates the distinctive odor, making it easier to indulge during school hours.
Exactly. They're all about harm reduction for so many things, IV drug use, safe sex teaching, but figure out a way to drastically reduce death from cigarette smoking with a vaporizing e-cig and they're making grumpy cat faces. Lying bastards, all, with an irrational hatred of tobacco in any form.
I think it's more than that. I've bought e-cigarette kits for three heavy and one light smokers—two of them three pack a day level—and convinced them to give the e-cigs a serious try. After a week or so, they liked them better than real cigarettes. . . Then they liked the money savings. . . then they loved the convenience. But three months to six or so months in. . . They were ALL NON-smokers!!!! Not even vaping any more! They gradually tapered off and stopped. The longest took about eight months but she was the lowest level smoker.
The taxing agencies and the tobacco companies are deathly afraid of losing their revenue streams!
It’s about mindless control because from what I hear e-cigs help smokers cut down or quit. Getting your nicotine fix via vapor is healthier than getting it via inhaling cigarette smoke.
The pot heads are vaping too. On TV I saw a California doc who writes medical marijuana prescriptions..... He wants his pothead patients to consume marijuana via a vaporizer. Not smoking joints
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporizer_%28inhalation_device%29
That is awesome news about your ex-smoker friends.
I met one guy a few years ago near my Dad’s house that would almost be on the ground in spasms of coughing due to smoking.
The next time I saw him he was using E-cigs and even though he was hitting it pretty heavy he was not coughing at all anymore.
I wish more smokers would try them and that the Gubments around the country would not keep passing BS regulations and laws preventing people from using e-cigs
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