05-14-2014, 01:50 PM
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Digital Dancing!
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: 80 billion club, NE
Age: 31
Posts: 12,981
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Re: the ecig struggle
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Originally Posted by Arntonach
Because the douchebags we've had to kick out of the non-smoking section of the casino thought that e-cigarettes didn't count. Then they bragged that they could smoke that in supermarkets, gas stations and hospitals but not the casino. I know it's supposed to be a healthy alternative, but it still feels like your smoking and a lot of the time the smell's annoying as fuck anyways.
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Those "douchebags" are in 100% correspondence with the law.
Code:
Smoking bans (or smoke-free laws) are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations,
which prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and other public spaces. Legislation may also define smoking as more generally being
the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product.
e-cigarettes are not tobacco products (yet) and there's nothing your little non-smoking section can lawfully do about it unless they have some wacky clause in company policy. While the FDA is working on regulating e-cigarettes as tobacco products, as of right now.. they're not considered tobacco products.
I don't necessarily agree that e-cigarettes should be regulated as tobacco products, however, since there's absolutely no tobacco in the vapor solutions, but the FDA has tried and failed in previous attempts to knock down e-cigs as drug-delivery devices.
Last edited by rushyrulz; 05-14-2014 at 02:05 PM..
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