Sunrise (FL) looks to ban e-cigarette sales to children

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Sunrise (FL) looks to ban e-cigarette sales to children
sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/sunrise/fl-sf-vaporizers-1002-20131005,0,2025838.story?track=rss

I fully support not selling ecig product to minors, but the reasoning by the "leaders" of Sunrise, FL shows they are ill informed and have been swayed by the headlines. Leaders need to set an example and actually learn before taking action. That involves reading past the headlines and doing some research before opening their mouths.

Here are the brilliant quotes from these elected officials....

"There is no oversight; there is no regulation," Mayor Mike Ryan said. "These can be sold to children. There is no law prohibiting them from buying it and, as a result, almost brilliant on the part of the tobacco companies, they are going to hook these kids on nicotine at a young age."

"We ought to be making clear that we don't want children being delivered pure nicotine, which is a gateway mechanism or gateway drug," Ryan said. "[The CDC] called it a 'nicotine addiction on training wheels.'"

Deputy Mayor Neil Kerch added, "whether it's nicotine or ..., we have a duty up here to protect our children."
Commissioner Joey Scuotto also brought up that the electronic cigarettes, which are portable vaporizers, can also be used to smoke liquid ......... and that the city would soon have to face that problem, too.

"You thought spice was bad? This is going to be a thousand times worse than spice because they are already selling it," Scuotto said. "I guarantee that any of our cops that pull over people, and they say it's just a cigarette, I would bet that 60 percent [or more], it won't be nicotine. This is what we have to worry about now."

 

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The city will vote on the new law at the next city commission meeting on Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. in the city commission chambers, 10770 West Oakland Park Boulevard.

I'm trying to find this proposal. May need some help finding it though.

 

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I found it. Holy moly - you have to read what they put as the reasoning in that ordinance. Wow. They have an agenda, took the ball and ran with it. I guess truth is not an option.

agenda.sunrisefl.gov/public/#
Click on the pdf link on the line with 10/08/13 City Commission Meeting and go to page 302. Oh, and make sure you're seated for this one.

The only good part about it is the action called for: banning sale to minors, banning sale in vending machines and checking ID of anyone appearing to be under 27.

 

[KjAthena]

WOW all I can say is how stoopid are these people (intentional misspelling)

 

[Uma]

The Big Pharma propaganda hard at work again. How to ban eCigs in your town, by Johnson & Johnson, aka changelabsolutions, who bought Pfitzer, who backs all the alphabet soup orgs and ANTZ orgs/groups. How to Regulate E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Smoking Devices in Your Community | ChangeLab Solutions

 

[Uma]

Studies like this one, is what towns should be looking at. This back ups the fact that even our minors are quitting smoking.... Somehow. They would rather blame it on stealing, black market, and all kinds of things, anything but the truth. They are being caught red handed sucking the nicotine out of tomato, potato, eggplant, red pepper gardens all around the world. They are the new walking dead. Where's my nic..oh....teen....
Cigarette sales to California teens drop to record low | Daily Trojan

 

[KjAthena]

I was thinking that all these towns were using the same playbook

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

I was thinking that all these towns were using the same playbook

I think it's a script sent out to the alphabet group minions to use in their local community and when someone shows up with true science they look like a deer in the headlights.

 

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The Big Pharma propaganda hard at work again. How to ban eCigs in your town, by Johnson & Johnson, aka changelabsolutions, who bought Pfitzer, who backs all the alphabet soup orgs and ANTZ orgs/groups. How to Regulate E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Smoking Devices in Your Community | ChangeLab Solutions

Holy crap. I didn't know this existed. Seems this is just what they're doing in Sunrise, FL.

 

[Racehorse]

Truth?

$$$ wins.

Once you realize this you can sort of shrug.

This is true whether it's legislation about ecigs or anything else.

In my lifetime, I watched sand dunes, natures protection, levelled and plowed down by bulldozers, all over the coasts of America, to build billion dollar developments. I've watched municipalities try to fight it.......but the Big $$ brings their huge teams of Philadelphia lawyers, and their million dollar political contributions, and good luck trying to fight them. Find me some virgin sand dunes, intact, and that will be your answer as to "who wins."

Politicians, Big Pharma, Big tobacco, and Wall Street........all in bed together, have been for my entire lifetime, and I"m probably a lot older than many of you.

There are things to do, but money is pretty darn powerful.

{Let me know when we get Monsanto out of our food, if you believe otherwise.}

 

[KC33]

I live really close to Sunrise. Just a bunch of Condo Commandos with too much time on their hands.

 

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I live really close to Sunrise. Just a bunch of Condo Commandos with too much time on their hands.

Ha, ha - condo commandos. Very funny!

 

[Uma]

Holy crap. I didn't know this existed. Seems this is just what they're doing in Sunrise, FL.

the township needs to be made aware of who are raping the citizens.

 

[Valhalla17]

Sunrise (FL) looks to ban e-cigarette sales to children
sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/sunrise/fl-sf-vaporizers-1002-20131005,0,2025838.story?track=rss

I fully support not selling ecig product to minors, but the reasoning by the "leaders" of Sunrise, FL shows they are ill informed and have been swayed by the headlines. Leaders need to set an example and actually learn before taking action. That involves reading past the headlines and doing some research before opening their mouths.

Here are the brilliant quotes from these elected officials....

Wow, i mean, wow. Yeah, there's real life ...... Madness going on there in Sunrise. They better do something quick before those wacky kids run amuck getting addicted to everything, destroy their minds then become politicians.