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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I have another friend who has been on the gum for two years after using it to ‘stop smoking’ - I could smell cigarette smoke on him pretty constantly. He's stopped buying the gum and I've not smelled the residue of a cigarette since I got him a vaporizer.
Almost universally, I've seen acceptance of vaporizers. Sure, there's still the anti-smoking freaks who start hacking if they see a cloud of steam.
If I find myself in Los Angeles, and get warned by a police officer that I'm violating this ordinance, I will certainly accept the ticket and then go fight it, demanding the city provide actual evidence of harm to justify the law - not impression of harm, not opinion of harm, but proof that there is harm.
And the only thing they have is one set of tests from the first (awful) devices and liquids that came from China which have pretty much no relation to the device I use.
And then I'll turn around and pull out the telephone book sized volumes of the harm from second hand smoke that these idiots have compiled, and note that this law harms ME by requiring ME to go to a ‘designated smoking area.’
I'm sure that a few liberal judges will quash this defense, but the only way for the city to win is for them to effectively say there is no harm to second hand cigarette smoke and there is harm to second hand water vapor. It will never stand up to a spirited defense.
Here in our own little liberal state, they are talking about putting a big old user tax on electronic cigarettes.
Whatever is not banned is compulsery!
“Yeah whatever. Good luck enforcing that.”
Especially given the leftists adversion to Voter ID. Since they consider requireing a photo ID is racist, I’d simply not have any ID to present to a government enforcement goon.
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