Here's an article about vaping in Illinois bars.
E-cigarettes fad lets smokers indoors again - News
A patron smokes an e-cigarette at The Blind Pig, a bar in Champaign, on Wednesday. These cigarettes don't burn tobacco or create smoke.
Media Credit: Trevor Greene
A patron smokes an e-cigarette at The Blind Pig, a bar in Champaign, on Wednesday. These cigarettes don't burn tobacco or create smoke.
Inside The Blind Pig Company in downtown Champaign, a group of University graduate students sit smoking cigarettes. Seemingly contradictory to the Illinois indoor smoking ban, these smokers are once again able to take a puff indoors.
For $50, a person can purchase an e-cigarette kit that includes one electronic cigarette, two battery chargers, and 10 cartridges that can either be filled with flavor or a type of nicotine. Additional containers of liquid can be bought for $10 per container.
Matt Garley was the first one of the group to find out about e-cigarettes. Then he introduced them to his friends Benjamin Slade and Lisa Pierce, all graduate students.
"That container would last me about a month, so if you think about it you pay sometimes five bucks for a pack of cigarettes and this is just ten," Pierce said.
Depending on the Web site, there are a variety of different colors of e-cigarettes and numerous flavors; Marlboro, Camel, apple, coffee, mint and chocolate are a few.
E-cigarettes are not yet being sold at Discount Smoke Shop, Smoke Shack, Jon's Pipe Shop or Undercover.