France considers electronic cigarette ban in public places

[davidthegnome]

6. Hmm

Still waiting to see the evidence that this is harmful to anyone other than the person inhaling it.... when I see that, I'll support an electronic cigarette ban in public places. Otherwise, it seems to me to be pretty damned pointless. Lower exposure? Reduce the risk of teens picking them up? Yeah. Uh huh. Somehow, I really don't think this sort of legislation is going to be terribly useful, whether it's successfully passed (I imagine it will be) or not.

Banning out of "fears they lead to smoking tobacco"... hmm. Now, if I was a boy, say, under 18... with a nature of rebelling against authority (most kids do) I imagine that the ban would only make me want to do it even more. Perhaps I'd have to wait and do it in private... but this seems to me to be promoting the very thing that they say they're trying to stop.