Do smoking bans apply to e-cigarettes?

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172. The EPA has already made the case on formaldehyde, for example,

one of the toxins that has been found in e-cigarettes.

It isn't up to the FDA to do all the research proving that the e-cigarettes are unsafe. It's up to the manufacturers to prove that they are -- or to be classified with tobacco products (which don't have to meet all the usual safety standards), which was their preferred choice.


The attorney for Smoking Everywhere – one of the two major e-cigarette importers -- insists that e-cigarettes are tobacco products and inherently unsafe.

Yet they advertise something different to their gullible customers.

http://www.njgasp.org/NPR_ecigs_08-05-09.pdf

The industry has sued the FDA, claiming it should not be regulated like a drug.
Walt Linscott, an attorney for Smoking Everywhere — one of two major importers of electronic cigarettes, cigars and pipes — says the e-cigarette is a tobacco product. And it should be regulated as such.
"It is a cigarette, and cigarettes inherent by their design and nature are not safe," Linscott says.
But as the company engages in a legal battle with the government, its very own telemarketers could be presenting a different picture to consumers, including marketing claims online. A Smoking Everywhere representative making a sales pitch said the product had been approved as safe by the FDA.
Linscott says that was a mistake that has been corrected.

http://www.njgasp.org/E-Cigs_White_Paper.pdf

The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation, Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis (DPA) conducted a laboratory analysis of e-cigarette cartridges from two leading brands. The analysis indicated that e-cigarettes expose users to harmful chemical ingredients:
• Diethylene glycol, an antifreeze ingredient toxic to humans was found.
• Tobacco specific nitrosamines that are human carcinogens were detected in 1⁄2 of 
the samples.
• Tobacco-specific impurities suspected of being harmful to humans – anabasine, 
myosmine, and B-nicotyrine – were detected in a majority of the samples.
• The e-cigarette cartridges labeled as containing no nicotine had low levels of 
nicotine present in all cartridges sampled, except one.
• 3 different e-cigarette cartridges with the same label emitted markedly different 
amounts of nicotine with each puff, ranging from 26.8 to 43.2 mcg nicotine/100 ml 
puff.