Smoking ban at American University will now cover outdoors, too

[bhikkhu]

105. Just to chime in - I was for the e-cig ban myself until recently

...but having read a bunch of research, having taken a good look at the many forums about it, and finally after having gotten an e-cig setup for my wife, I have to say I was formerly very wrong-headed.

Nicotine by itself is a very different (and not especially bad) animal than the rotten cocktail of poisons in cigarettes, and the better e-cigs are so much better than cigarettes I think they will eventually replace them. And, as a bonus, nicotine alone is only about as addictive as caffeine.

So I'm all for stricter measures for cigarettes, but I would rather see some leeway for e-cigs. They carry a guilt-by-association that they don't deserve.