{"id":1359,"date":"2014-01-07T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2014-01-07T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:29:49","slug":"e-cigs-banned-by-new-york-city-really-you-realize-these-are-e-cigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"E-cigs banned by New York City. Really? You realize these are e-cigs, not actual cigarettes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ecig\"<\/a>This is a baffling story to me, sorry. Jack, I know you might not agree, but I have enough of a Libertarian streak to say, “WTF?”<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, the city of New York extended its strict smoking ban to e-cigs. <\/a>E-cigs are not allowed in NYC bars and restaurants now.<\/p>\n

OK, I don’t have a big agenda with e-cigs, which I will explain in a detailed post tomorrow (I promise), but this reminds me of\u00a0 a dumb move made in Montana regarding e-cigs. When the state’s smoking ban went into place, a lot of the bars around here stocked up on e-cigs that they could sell to their customers who could no longer smoke in the bars. The state health department came down and claimed e-cigs were covered under the smoking ban, and the bars cried, “like … why?” And the state health department responded … “um … we don’t know.” It turns out the state health department literally thought e-cigs were somehow literal electronic cigarettes, which they are not. They are simply a nicotine delivery system, nothing more. After declaring e-cigs banned, the state health department backed down a few weeks later and said they were OK (probably after conferring with lawyers).<\/p>\n

And there you have it. E-cigs are massively misunderstood … and let me stress, I am not endorsing them. Just saying they are misunderstoood. There is nothing toxic or poisonous or carcinogenic in the steam coming out of an e-cig. Just nicotine. And you’re not going to get addicted to nicotine because you might inhale a bit of nicotine-laced steam from an e-cig. More on this issue tomorrow (I promise).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I guess I’m saying in a roundabout way that this appears to be a bit of an overreach in New York City. Former mayor Michael Bloomberg was possibly the most fanatical anti-smoking, anti-tobacco zealot on the planet — a LOT more than me. New York has some of the strictest anti-smoking ordinances in the country, which for the most part I am completely cool with.<\/p>\n

Some people are vowing to fight the New York ban on e-cigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a baffling story to me, sorry. Jack, I know you might not agree, but I have enough of a Libertarian streak to say, “WTF?” A couple of weeks ago, the city of New York extended its strict smoking ban to e-cigs. E-cigs are not allowed in NYC bars and restaurants now. OK, I … Continue reading E-cigs banned by New York City. Really? You realize these are e-cigs, not actual cigarettes?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[592,159],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cigarettes","tag-e-cigs","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ecig.jpg?fit=462%2C346&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-lV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2027,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2027","url_meta":{"origin":1359,"position":0},"title":"Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach ban e-cigs indoors","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"March 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I think you're going to see more and more of this, and I'm becoming more and more OK with it. 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