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

[Ms. Toad]

104. Tobacco sales to minors have been in place for a little more than two decades.

What has happened more recently is the move toward limiting public smoking.

If I was dictator for the day, I would place the same restrictions on e-cigs that are currently in place for cigarettes. The same restrictions on sales, use, and marketing. Anywhere smoking is banned, I would also ban e-cigs.

I might make an exception (for marketing and public use, but not sale) for devices which are not intended to mimic smoking - although to some extent making them different would defeat the purpose because making them similar in size/shape/function to cigarettes is part of what makes them useful to people using them to quit smoking.

My concern is a repeat by the tobacco industry - and by prevalent public use - which glamorizes the use of something which is physically addictive (the nicotine), and creates habits identical to smoking which add to the difficulty of overcoming the physical addiction in new generations of teens.