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Yesterday the Boston Public Health Commission voted to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in workplaces, including outdoor areas such as restaurant patios. It says it is simply "clos[ing] a loophole" by "treat[ing] e-cigarettes like tobacco products." In the absence of evidence that e-cigarettes are a hazard to other people, what possible justification is there for treating them the same as conventional cigarettes? I mean, they look like cigarettes, but surely that superficial resemblance is not enough for a scientifically grounded agency like the Boston Public Health Commission. Or maybe it is. Here is the best the commission can do...

http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2006/hrg060926p.html Why was this hearing canceled, does anybody know? Without linking the (dreadful) sites that are reporting this, they are saying (hoping) that today was the last day that Bolton could be confirmed and it's over for him. Has anybody heard anything about this?