Mankato (MN) City Council protects cigarettes by banning e-cigarette sampling in stores

[Bill Godshall]

Mankato (MN) City Council protects cigarettes by banning e-cig use in workplaces (including in e-cig stores).
KEYC - Mankato News, Weather, Sports - - E-Cigarette Sampling in Mankato: Up In Smoke

 

[soba1]

.......................this is crazy.
If this is true, someone got bribed big time

 

[Bill Godshall]

Another article

Mankato limits e-cigs
Mankato limits e-cigs » Local News » The Free Press, Mankato, MN

 

[soba1]

This is why we have to defeat this bill in Ca.
this is outright BS

 

[soba1]

It would serve them right for someone to open a thriving business in a neighboring city.

 

[jkais3r]

Dead thread, BUT. Since I stumbled upon it.

They want to equate e-cig usage to cigarette smoking. They are currently waiting to hear something about the fda, what they have to say about it. But it seems that the fda is doing the opposite and allowing cities to make their own decisions. At the current time they are not banned, just like any other city. We have a head shop that sells e-cigs and juices at premium prices. But that shop is busy. Every time I've gone in there, there has been probably 10+ people looking at e-cigs.

So essentially, their defense is that they see secondhand vape to be as dangerous as secondhand cigarette smoke.

I do not believe that they are protecting cigarettes, I do not see where you came up with that either. You should not add fuel to a fire by putting words in the opposing side's mouth.

Colleges are not allowing e-cigs either. But that doesn't mean they're supporting smoking. They're getting rid of a distraction from the students.

So, as of right now, e-cigs are not banned but the fate shall be decided in 2014. And I don't think I'd care if they were. They'll still be available at the shops, just can't try out a juice. Just like any online vendor.

 

[tommy2bad]

Dead thread, BUT. Since I stumbled upon it.

SNIPThey want to equate e-cig usage to cigarette smoking. SNIP

Just to highlight this observation.
This is now the tactic, banning ecigs is no longer an option so they want them treated as smoking with all the restrictions attached.
We are winning but they have a fall back position we will find hard to argue against as the vast majority see vaping as smoking. No Point telling them otherwise, years of propaganda has confuzzeled nicotine consumption with smoking and non smokers don't see smoke as the problem. They see nicotine as the problem.
This might change as time goes on if we hold what we have, people are not stupid, just gullible, so the antz must confuse vaping with smoking to continue their campaign for a nicotine free society.