NEW JERSEY LAWMAKERS MAY REGULATE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES WBGO News via RSS
Trenton - (WBGO News 11/25/2009)
New Jersey lawmakers are considering legislation to regulate the sale of
electronic cigarettes.
E-cigarettes use a metal tube with a battery to heat up a nicotine solution and users breath the vapor. Assemblywoman Connie Wagner is sponsoring a bill that would extend the ban on the sale of tobacco products to anyone under 19 to include e-cigarettes.
She also wants their use banned in indoor public places.
"We who have accustomed to having a smoke free environment that when we go
into an enclosed mall or a place of employment that we not be exposed to
potentially harmful vapors that occur when it's exhaled."
The e-cigarette measure has been approved by the Assembly's Health committee and could go to the full Assembly for a vote before the end of this legislative session.
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