Do you think vaping should be included in this ban? HUD’s new plans to initiate a ban on smoking would affect more than 700,000 public housing units. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) The Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, plans to initiate a ban on smoking. The new rule would affect more than 700,000 public housing […]
A doctor showing off his common sense! Associate Professor Marewa Glover says there is evidence E-Cigarettes help smokers quit. Photo / Getty Images A vaping ban on the University of Otago’s campus is based more on prejudice than science, a Massey public health professor says. “It’s shocking,” longtime tobacco researcher Associate Prof Marewa Glover, of […]
I’m not sure that I agree with the title of this piece, but there is some good stuff in there and it is clear that our enthusiasm cannot be dampened! Ron Rotatori, who owns a vaping shop in Wildwood, says he cut his half-century-long cigarette habit from two packs to just two cigarettes a day […]
More fuel on the fire of the public vaping debate. Tammy Villanueva, manager, vapes at Tobacco Joes Vapor Bar with a customer in Everett. The Snohomish Health District wants to ban vaping in public places. I like to tell my kids stories about the old days – tales of how we walked uphill both ways […]
Does you work have a policy on vaping? As the vaping community grows, businesses should have a policy for e-cigarette use in the workplace, experts say. E-cigarettes have become popular as a way to quit smoking. But there is now a question whether people who vape in the workplace should get a designated area like […]
If someone wants to choose to not allow vaping in their own business that is one thing, but no vaping in a vape shop is just silly. Vape shops may soon become less cloudy as Pleasant Hill’s City Council votes on the indoor vaping ordinance. The city held an emergency vote at their Oct. 19 […]
The battle rages on in Indiana. American Academy of Pediatrics calls for inclusion of e-cigarettes in smoking bans, cigarette taxes The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for tighter regulation of e-cigarettes. In the journal Pediatrics, the AAP calls for a couple of steps Indiana has already taken, making e-cigarettes off limits to minors and […]
I say vape! “It is not known whether e-cigarettes may lead young people to try other tobacco products…which are known to cause disease and lead to premature death.” – United States Food and Drug Administration “Testing of some e-cigarette products found the vapor to contain known carcinogens and toxic chemicals.” – National […] Click here […]
More people trying to legislate us… Every day, it seems, there are more of them: Vapers, huddled in doorways, strolling the sidewalks and sometimes indoors, sipping their e-cigs and exhaling blooms of odorless smoke. The rapid rise of “vaping” – electronic cigarettes – has local health officials concerned. Little is known about the health effects […]
Make sure to follow all the rules when you travel with your vaping devices! The U.S. Department of Transportation is all, like, “I’ve had it with these mothafuckin’ vapes, on this mothafuckin’ plane !” Citing in-flight fire hazards, DOT announced a ban on vape pens, e-cigarettes, and other similiar devices in any checked baggage of […]
