Rockland County, NY – Lawmakers in a New York county where smoking indoors is already prohibited are considering adding a ban on e-cigarettes.
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The Journal News reports (http://lohud.us/1KSqaOX ) Rockland County officials held a public hearing Tuesday night to discuss the expansion of the county’s smoking restrictions to treat electronic cigarettes like traditional tobacco products.
Legislator Aney Paul, a Nanuet Democrat who authored the proposal, says she’s alarmed by the chemicals contained in e-cigarettes and is concerned by the increase in “vaping” by young people.
The bill would ban use of e-cigarettes in areas already covered by the state’s 2003 Clean Indoor Air Act — which includes offices, restaurants, schools, sports facilities and government buildings.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says the number of teens using the tobacco alternative tripled between 2013 and 2014.
People are alarmed by what? E-cigs use the same delivery system as asthma inhalers. E-cigs have gotten millions of people off of carcinogenic, deadly cigarettes. The problem is that the pro-socialist majority in NY began taxing the living daylights out of the tobacco companies, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Without that revenue, they have to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for all the ridiculous programs they built on the backs of smokers and their 400% taxes.
Now, these socialists want to treat e-cigs like tobacco so they can TAX it like tobacco. Talk to REAL doctors who aren’t being paid by tobacco lobby and they will tell you that it is better not to smoke at all and give up the addiction to nicotine, but that after 10+ years on the market, there is no evidence that e-cigs have ANY negative impact on the body and those who throw away cigarettes for e-cigs show the same rate of lung-repair as those who quit cold-turkey. I’m sick of these socialist government bureaucrats constantly looking for new ways to stick it to the middle class.