City, County Roll Out Minor Ban On E-Cigarettes

[Vocalek]

City, County Roll Out Minor Ban On E-Cigarettes - News Story - KXLY Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Although smoking cigarettes has been illegal for minors for decades they could still get a legal nicotine fix from electronic cigarettes, a smokeless alternative that turns nicotine liquid into a vapor mist.


That is until this week when both Spokane County and the City of Spokane banned the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.

The bad news: They did find a 17-year old using an electronic cigarette
The good news: He has been smoking since age 11 and using the e-cigarette has enabled him to cut down from 15 cigarettes a day to 6.

 

[MoonRose]

For something that is illegal for minors to use, there sure are a lot of them who do smoke and in the case of teenage boys in rural areas, the use of chewing tobacco is used quite a bit. When I was in high school back in the late 70's it was illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to buy tobacco products and yet a vast majority of my classmates smoked or used chewing tobacco.

 

[DMF]

Moonrose,
When I was a teen in the same time frame, smoking was permitted with parental authorization. I actually had a (forged) letter from my parents allowing me to smoke. We had a "smoking room" in our school , it was outside under a canopy. I can never remember having difficulty purchasing cigarettes.(when I was 11 in NJ, I claimed I was "buyin em for daddy", had to smoke his brand lol) In Connecticut if there was a underage law, it wasn't in effect during the seventies.

 

[MoonRose]

They had just started putting it into effect where I was living in northern MS at that time, not that many ever paid any attention to it. I can remember a group of classmates getting busted for smoking out behind the gym one day, they were all suspended for 3 days, I graduated in 79 and the anti's were just starting to hit their stride about the dangers of smoking. At first it started out with the dangers of actually smoking or chewing tobacco was what caused cancer and they showed films in health classes to show this and what it looked like. Apparently when those tatics didn't work they started bringing in the dangers of second-hand smoke in the 80's and it's continued to mushroom out of control from there.

 

[DMF]

Yeah, I recall, a year or two after I graduated, think it was 83, Connecticut made smoking in office buildings illegal. It mushroomed from there.
I remember , when I moved here, in 97, you could still smoke in grocery stores!!!(Delaware was slow to hit the "smoking is bad" bandwagon) I was tickled that I could go to a restaurant and have an after dinner smoke. They killed it five years ago tho. Now they even prevent smoking on the beaches. Out in the open air, with a constant wind bringing smoke somewhere else, it's illegal to smoke on the beach.
I am SOOOO glad I vape!!! anyone know of a pv that is sand resistant!?

 

[N2rock]

Graduated in '83... Grew up in rural community. I remember starting on chewing tobacco at 14yrs, and never had problems with purchasing it. Switched from chewing to smoking at 15yrs. In High School, of course smoking wasn't allowed. But there was a certain restroom in the school where all the smokers went between classes. And occasionally a teacher would pop in there to smoke with us.

 

[MoonRose]

I guess it all depends on where one was living in the late 70's and early 80's as to when the "smoking is evil" bug hit. And of course now the anti's have a new promoter in their war on tobacco in the form of the surgeon general who has made the statement that even "one" cigarette can kill you. If that were true, I would have been dead long ago.

 

[Vocalek]

When I was teaching high school in the mid 70's, there was a designated smoking area outside for the use of students. Teachers could smoke indoors in the teacher's lounge.

But when I was in high school a decade earlier, students got busted for smoking. Also, the girls were required to wear skirts to school -- even if there was a blizzard -- and they had to be longer than mid-kneecap. And "public display of affection" -- even as minor as holding hands walking down the hall -- was an infraction worthy of detention. I kid you not. And no, this was not a private school. It was an inner-city public school.

 

[N2rock]

And "public display of affection" -- even as minor as holding hands walking down the hall -- was an infraction worthy of detention. I kid you not. And no, this was not a private school. It was an inner-city public school.

hahahaha- yes, I remember those days. I spent a lot of time in detention LOL

My 14yr son asked me a couple weeks ago what I would do if he got busted for kissing his girlfriend at school. I told him I would give him a high-five LOL

 

[Tyger0902]

I live in NC and I was so excited to go to high school in '86 because you could still smoke in the classrooms (yes it's true). However, the end of the school year before the state put a stop to students smoking in the buildings the teachers still could smoke in the teacher's lounge. We could still smoke on campus but just outside. By the next school year we couldn't smoke on campus, but that didn't stop us. A friend of ours lived behind the school and had a gate in her fence and we would just go to her yard or we would go into the parking lot if teachers/admin weren't around.

 

[DMF]

wow, we're really taking this thread in a different direction than originally posted.
I apologise. Though it has been interesting to see what 30 years has done to society and school children!

 

[Vocalek]

I came close to getting detention one time. The setting: Bitter cold, about a foot of snow on the ground, heavy wind blowing. Me, wearing a skirt, boots, heaviest coat I owned, gloves, walking to school, shivering like mad going into hypothermia. My legs, protected only by a thin layer of nylon stockings, were burning and beet red.

A male friend (not a boyfriend) saw how cold I was and put his arm around my shoulder to help keep me warm. When we got to the corner across the street from the school, we split up due to the rule against PDA.

I was summoned into the principals office who said he saw us from his window, tried to make me feel ashamed, and threatened me with detention. I pointed out that we were across the street, not on school property when the "infraction" occurred. That the infraction had nothing to do with romance and everything to do with my being unbearably cold. And went on to complain bitterly about being forced to suffer from frostbite on the way to school due to the prohibition against girls wearing slacks. He told me to go to class and not to let "it" happen again.

 

[Petrodus]

Back in the days I wore penny loafers
instead of a penny in each shoe... there were quarters
25 cents could by me a gallon of gas or a pack of smokes

 

[kristin]

“Technically its legal to sell to any age, whether you’re 4 years old or 40 years old,” Christopher Zilar with the Spokane Regional Health District said.

“Youth need to be protected from being addicted to something, so that’s our issue, we want to make sure youth don’t have access to this,” Zilar said.

Because how many 4 year olds will be buying e-cigarettes? What a ridiculous statement.

Youth need to be protected from addiction. Completely ignoring the gaggle of kids already addicted & smoking REAL cigarettes across the street. So, let's take away a safer alternative for them. Insanity. A better law would be to ban sales to NON-smoking minors - not that they'd even be interested in buying them anyhow.

Message: Smokers are a lost cause. Save the non-smoking kid who MIGHT try smoking or *gasp* low-risk alternatives. Meanwhile, sell Mountain Dew in the school vending machines so they become dependent upon caffeine and have to take drugs to address attention deficit disorders that are really sugar highs.

 

[GarnetJax]

My mom used to tell me about the skirts when she was in school... Then she moved to sunny, warm, CA and it was not just OK to wear slacks but also jeans... lol

 

[Placebo Effect]

I sent an e-mail to the reporter congratulating her on possibly being the first reporter in the U.S. to find a minor using e-cigarettes, and thanking her for pointing out that he was using the product to quit or cut down his cigarette habit.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

When I was teaching high school in the mid 70's, there was a designated smoking area outside for the use of students. Teachers could smoke indoors in the teacher's lounge.

But when I was in high school a decade earlier, students got busted for smoking. Also, the girls were required to wear skirts to school -- even if there was a blizzard -- and they had to be longer than mid-kneecap. And "public display of affection" -- even as minor as holding hands walking down the hall -- was an infraction worthy of detention. I kid you not. And no, this was not a private school. It was an inner-city public school.

I went to Annandale High School in Va. in the late '70's and I can vouch for smoking areas for students--and it wasn't just used for tobacco.

 

[mwa102464]

I don't even want to say what went on in the outdoor smoking lounge in my high school, it was one wild wild place and it wasn't just for smoking that's 4 sure.!!!

 

[t9c]

Youth need to be protected from addiction. Completely ignoring the gaggle of kids already addicted & smoking REAL cigarettes across the street. So, let's take away a safer alternative for them. Insanity. A better law would be to ban sales to NON-smoking minors - not that they'd even be interested in buying them anyhow.

Message: Smokers are a lost cause. Save the non-smoking kid who MIGHT try smoking or *gasp* low-risk alternatives. Meanwhile, sell Mountain Dew in the school vending machines so they become dependent upon caffeine and have to take drugs to address attention deficit disorders that are really sugar highs.

They oughta be giving PV's away to the teen smokers in schools! Go to the school nurse and get your e-cig and condoms at the same time.

 

[slappy]

Meanwhile, sell Mountain Dew in the school vending machines so they become dependent upon caffeine and have to take drugs to address attention deficit disorders that are really sugar highs.

Boogles the mind... It's amazing, I'll watch my daughter after a piece of candy or cake and she is almost uncontrolable... We stay away from the sodas... But then she's six and still sheltered from outside influences. Can't wait for junior high.