California Senate Panel Approves Package of Six Tobacco Bills

Councillors voted Thursday to prohibit smoking in city-owned parks and outdoor sporting facilities, and to include electronic cigarettes under the ban; council voted to treat e-cigs the same as conventional tobacco cigarettes.

While others believe that just like nicotine gum, it helps kick the habit and there are extensive studies needed to prove whether e-cigarettes are good or bad for health.

Any e-cigarette regulation in Texas will have to occur city by city, Rankin says, since the state doesn’t have comprehensive smoke-free laws. Tobacco is an incredibly unsafe drug – it kills half of all people who use it. Most experts are pretty clear e-cigarettes are not going to be anywhere near as risky as that.

It also revealed that the perception that they were a gateway to cigarette smoking among young people was wrong.

The original measure to raise the tobacco age stalled in the legislature but was revived for this special session healthcare and was approved by the new Senate Committee on Public Health and Developmental Services.

But it is concerned that the debate is leading some smokers to think e-cigarettes are just as unsafe as normal cigarettes.

And he was concerned that many people use e-cigarettes to supplement or slightly reduce their smoking.

Chief executive of the RSPH, Shirley Cramer, said nicotine was no more harmful than caffeine and urged a greater use of e-cigarettes, which the charity would like to see the products renamed as “nicotine sticks or vapourisers”. The flavoring and lower costs of these non-cigarette smoked tobacco products make them especially appealing to youth.

And there is no evidence so far that children or non-smokers are using e-cigarettes as a route into smoking, according to the report.

Available for almost a decade, e-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that turn nicotine-containing liquid into vapor that is inhaled. The result: The creation of a large group that began using spit tobacco as a smoking replacement but eventually became dual users.

The FDA in 2014 proposed rules that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors and would add the devices to the list of tobacco products it regulates.

She said: “Over 100,000 people die from smoking-related disease every year in the UK“.