Chicago E-Cigarette Ban? City Considering Updating Smoking Ban To Include Controversial Cigs

[quiter]

Chicago may soon take a first step toward becoming the first major U.S. city to regulate the sale of e-cigarettes.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports Mayor Rahm Emanuel is joining forces with two powerful alderman -- Will Burns (4th) and Ed Burke (14th) -- to push for e-cigarettes in Chicago to be regulated as "tobacco products" and subject to the same restrictions as are outlined in the city's existing smoking ban.
Specifically, that means they would be banned for minors and would also not be allowed to be smoked wherever traditional cigarettes are already banned.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/chicago-e-cigarette-ban_n_4339921.html


It's amazing just how often laws are passed with no evidence to support them.

 

[Barbara21]

Thanks for posting this. Lots of comments, mainly negative.

 

[quiter]

Thanks for posting this. Lots of comments, mainly negative.

You're welcome. And yep it was good to read the comments. Not many people where happy about it at all. I see that as a positive sign.

 

[Bill Godshall]

There's already a thread about Chicago's proposal in the Legislative News section (as well as one in this section).
Please review already posted notes before posting a new note (to ensure no duplication), and please post all legislative news in the Legislative News section, not in this General News section.