CJ: "Not many complaints"

[Nekoyoubi]

Here's a quote from a Courier Journal article about us that if you haven't read, you should. All-in-all, it seems like a pretty decent report. Here's the way the article ends though, and I thought this was most relevant:

Not many complaints

Hahn said Louisville and Lexington’s smoking bans, passed when e-cigarettes were barely known, don’t apply to them. Bans this year by Bardstown and Glasgow included e-cigarettes, and the Madison County Board of Health is considering taking similar action.

In Louisville, two large employers and one small one said e-cigarette smoking by workers hasn’t become an issue.

And Dave Langdon, spokesman for the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, said his department has no plans to try adding electronic cigarettes to Louisville’s ban.

He said the department has received only one complaint over e-cigarette use in a public place. “We simply told (the complainer) that the ordinance didn’t apply,” he said.

Nicotine-delivering e-cigarettes under fire | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal

 

[Nikhil]

Fancy guy in the picture has an Omega with 306 atomizer and clear Nhaler drip tip plus some AVE juice, nice!

Also our very own Deanna is quoted in the article (ECF name Deena) on page 4.

Nice quote from Nitzkin as well.

“I don’t think there’s any question about it,” said Dr. Joel Nitzkin, former chair of the tobacco control task force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians.

If cigarette smokers switched to e-cigarettes, Nitzkin said, “we could eliminate 98 percent of the illness and death” attributed to tobacco use.

This is quite sad, however.

Bans this year by Bardstown and Glasgow included e-cigarettes, and the Madison County Board of Health is considering taking similar action.

 

[TWolf]

Great find, Neko! Thanks for sharing it...

 

[frequentj]

Is there someplace I can see county-by-county if e-cigs are banned? If Madison county passes that ban, I'd say all the bar-owners in Richmond are going to be p%^^@d!

 

[RooksGambit]

That's me with the OMeGa, and in the first little interview in the article. Both the reporter and the photographer were very interested in this whole vaping thing. I spoke to both for about an hour.

frequentj, I know that Bardstown has a ban on PV's/Smoking, and the Tobacco ban on UK Campus also includes PVs specifically, and I believe the new Marion County ordinance covers vaping as well. Though that may only have been in their county courthouse.

 

[frequentj]

That's me with the OMeGa, and in the first little interview in the article. Both the reporter and the photographer were very interested in this whole vaping thing. I spoke to both for about an hour.

frequentj, I know that Bardstown has a ban on PV's/Smoking, and the Tobacco ban on UK Campus also includes PVs specifically, and I believe the new Marion County ordinance covers vaping as well. Though that may only have been in their county courthouse.

Thanks! Gosh, it makes me feel old when I remember when you could smoke at UK. And by "at UK", I mean in the actual classroom hallways!

 

[TWolf]

Thanks! Gosh, it makes me feel old when I remember when you could smoke at UK. And by "at UK", I mean in the actual classroom hallways!

remember those days myself... and having an ashtray on my desk at work...