New York state health advocates seek indoor e-cigarette ban [View all]

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Rick Karlin
Hoping for legislative momentum from news Thursday that the FDA is proposing long-awaited regulations on e-cigarettes, health advocates in New York want to take the discussion further to impose a ban on such devices in indoor workplaces.

"We're going to go ahead with some state regulations that go beyond what the federal government wants," Michael Burgess, state advocacy director for the American Cancer Society, said of the proposed indoor ban.

Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal of Manhattan and GOP state Sen. Kemp Hannon of Long Island are sponsoring bills that would basically ban the electronic devices from areas covered under the state's Clean Indoor Air Act, the law that drove workplace smokers outdoors.

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