liquid not tobacco product?

[hollimaree]

Hi, I will be ordering my first pv soon (think I have finally settled on the eGo). I have researched so much I think my head might explode, but I still have a question regarding legality. My city has a ban on smoking in public places. As the law defines it:

“Smoke or Smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, pipe or other combustible tobacco product in any manner or in any form.
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Does the nicotine liquid count as a tobacco product? Isn’t it derived from tobacco? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[LowThudd]

I think the key word there is "Combustable" as juice is not a combustable. This has been the case in other areas w/ similar ordinance.

 

[markfm]

"or other combustible tobacco product" Vaping isn't a combustible (burnable) tobacco product. It's a liquid base (PG or VG), with nicotine and flavorings. The liquid is turned into a vapor, but there's no burning, you are not smoking.

Where I work the use of tobacco products (including things like snuff or snus) and smoking is prohibited -- vaping is neither.

 

[BlueMoods]

I say no, first is a nicotine patch or mint a tobacco product, second, you don't light a PV, third, is rum extract treated the same as rum? NO! vaping is NOT smoking, there is nothing burning, nothing lit in the sense that law means (just an LED light as in light bulb). there is no fire, coal or ember, no smoke. so it is not smoking by any stretch of the term.

 

[hollimaree]

I didn't think about it not being combustible. That makes sense. Thanks for the quick replies.

 

[HyOnLyph]

I guess the question would be... what are you willing to do to challenge the ordinance. It's possible that you'd get a ticket anyway. Who's to say if you are vaping any nicotine at all... which eliminates the tobacco product. Perhaps you're a 0 nic vaper. But if the ordinance is in place, you may get a ticket that you'd have to fight... and you may lose. Since in fact you are using a nic juice. It sounds like the law was written to cover every possible angle including a heated e-cig. Combustible... "capable of catching fire and burning". Combustion is not vaporizing. So I guess it depends on how far you want to test the ordinance. I think I'd let you off with a warning but then I'm a minister ... not a cop. ;o)