L.A. E-Cigarette Ban Approved
The L.A. City Council today voted unanimously to place use of e-cigarettes in the same category as cigarettes in city limits. That means puffing on so-called "vapes" or vaporizer pens will be banned on beaches, in parks, in markets, in most offices and in restaurants, even outdoor dining areas.
See also: Vapor Lounges Would be Legal Under L.A. E-Cigarette Ban
The vape industry was against the move, of course, saying the jury's still out on any possible harm caused by vaping. Some claim the water vapor from smoking nicotine is harmless and that the devices are priceless to those actually trying to quit cigarettes.
A pair of Columbia University public health professors wrote this in the New York Times recently.
... If e-cigarettes can reduce, even slightly, the blight of six million tobacco-related deaths a year, trying to force them out of sight is counterproductive.
http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/03/04/la-e-cigarette-ban-approved
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Someone who uses e-cigs exclusively has quit smoking. Period. Why do some people want to pretend that isn't true?
Congratulations, by the way. Good job. 
After all, these terrible people started using an addictive substance. The penalty should be death. Long, slow and painful death.
That way as they spend their last years lingering in agony, they can know we do not approve of their choices.
eggplant and peppers. 
Well for me quitting cigs was like a picnic in teddy bear park compared to the hell that was opiate withdrawals, but that's just me. I do agree though, if one can find a safer delivery system for the one thing that keeps them smoking the system that delivers thousands of carcinogens, I'm all for it! My husband quit smoking using an e-cig. Well ok, for people like Tikki - he quit using the harmful delivery system and uses the safer one.
"And if you are very nice, you can have "menthol" (whatever the hell that may be)."
That was a typo, in their rules release.
They meant methanlol. 
and since i'm such an adult i only use adult appropriate absorption, like scouring pad, or crown of thorns.
"I'd have more sympathy for the manufacturers if they weren't marketing to teens with their candy flavors."
We've gone over this before. You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. You've been informed that after a time, most people who quit smoking and vape instead, don't want to taste tobacco...which leaves them...non tobacco flavors...which include...*gasp*...sweet flavors. The horror!!
You've also been shown:
and
and never been able to reconcile your claim with those things.
Clearly marketed to teens, right?
One can only wonder, those being the facts, why you continue to say what you're saying here.
Nicotine is not what kills people who smoke. For the people who are scared of the small possibility of accidentally walking by a tiny wisp of vapor with nicotine in it on a crowded, polluted LA beach or park, I hope you don't eat potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants or other nightshade family veggies or you'll have yourself some nicotine unwittingly.
What about those of us who vape 0% nicotine? What's the argument then? That guy looks like he's smoking and enjoying it, but he's really puffing on water vapor, lets ban ecigs. Completely brilliant, not.
What we need is more Puritans banning the things they don't like, so we can focus more on the chemcial-laden products they approve of so we can assimilate better into society.
I didn't see a disclaimer....
