The marketing of e cigs needs to be regulated just as cigarettes are.

[nadinbrzezinski]

62. That is where you are wrong

Pharmacies fall under the State Department of Health, the County Department of Health and the FDA.

And you cannot differentiate it, but it is very real. Here, just some research on this

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/11/110416/electronic-cigarettes-new-route-smoking-addiction-adolescents

What local cities and counties are doing is placing these devices under the tobacco rubric, why? The Feds are well behind the power curve. Some states have also added them to the same rubric. Why? By watching somebody use a vaporizer (medical devices will have to be clearly marked) I cannot tell if it has juice, or juice + anything else.

People who use them are of course in a panic, and I do not mean those with medical needs. IMHO it is a cool way to get around smoking bans at restaurants, hotels, parks, county and city facilities, work places, schools and colleges. Anecdotally a fourth grade teacher was talking about how kids think Mr. Peters is great since he uses his device while teaching class, and the school district is now coming with policies to deal with that. We call it behavior modeling. And if I were a parent and my kid told me teach is doing that in class I would be outraged. Do not need my fictional kid to see that, or my very real nephews.

And that district is not the exception. An increasing number of school districts are coming up with policy. After all, if a kid lights up there are clear policies. If he or she vaps, there are none. But medical devices should be taken into account. So will make sure that arrives to proper officials.

This is what we are talking about.

And if it helps people quit, still anecdotal, the more power to them. But the research being done tells me that while less dangerous, they are not safe.