Alabama Senate Judiciary Cmte approves bill (HB 286) to ban sale of "alternative nicotine products" to minors

[Bill Godshall]

Alabama Legislative Information System Online

Please note that this bill has already been approved by the Alabama House.


Also please note that this bill would ban e-cig sales to anyone under the age of 19, as Alabama has long banned tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 19 (as have Utah, Alaska and New Jersey).

 

[Huntsvappin]

Yeah I've been watching this one. It's a good thing. Just a ban to minors

 

[CES]

Thanks for the update. I hadn't even realized that this one was in the mix.

There's been no movement on HB 258 (clean air act that includes e-cigs under smoking laws) in the house health committee since Feb 12th.

 

[Erncig]

Yeah I've been watching this one. It's a good thing. Just a ban to minors

Why can a minor buy coke, mc donalds and red bull and nobody bats an eye lid, but the evil ecig must be banned?

 

[Petrodus]

Why can a minor buy coke, mc donalds and red bull and nobody bats an eye lid, but the evil ecig must be banned?

Because e-cigarettes emit a smoke-like vapor
and it's offensive to those opposed to smoking.
Nothing to do with health concerns.

 

[transamspirit]

I was thinking this exact thing the other day. If the ecig didn't have a vapor we wouldn't have this issue at all. But then again ecigs wouldn't have their popularity either.

 

[Myrany]

This is going to be unpopular but here goes.

I don't thing banning sales of e-cigs CONTAINING NIC to minors is a bad thing. I don't see why anyone should care about 0 nic rigs. I suspect the reason they don't make the distinction is if a cop sees a kid vaping they would pretty much have to run chem tests to prove it contained nic and no one wants to pay for or bother with that.

 

[CES]

I have no problem with banning sales to minors (even if my brother did try to get my nephew to stop smoking by getting him an e-cig) ...it's restricting sales to adults that i adamantly oppose.

 

[crnp3130]

Is vaping banned anywhere in Alabama yet? Are there any chain restaurants that allow vaping indoors?

 

[CES]

Hi crnp3130, welcome to ECF.

The city of Birmingham exempted e-cigs from smoking regulations.
Mobile may have also- but i'm not sure.

The cities of Vestavia, Mountain Brook and Bessemer, may have included e-cigs in smoking restrictions.

You'll have to check with the specific restaurant to see if they allow vaping. i don't know of any chains that have made any policies (someone else may). Several bars in Birmingham welcome vaping, and even sell disposable e-cigs.