NYC expands smoking ban to include e-cigarettes

[brett_jv]

1. Weak sauce ...

There's no evidence that '2nd Hand' (which is always pre-filtered by the inhaler before being exhaled, unlike w/tobacco smoke) e-cig vapor is in *any* way harmful to others. Heck it's not even proven harmful to the person using the device, other than the nicotine addiction involved.

I vape in the car with my wife (who HATES cigarettes & smoke), sometimes with the windows up ... she doesn't notice or complain. The vapor is not even remotely as noxious as tobacco smoke, and it disappears into the air within a few seconds. There's some 'flavors' where the odor of the flavoring can be 'smelled' in the air if you stick your face right where someone is exhaling, but for the most part, 2nd hand vapor is really quite innocuous, and there's no proof it's harmful to others.

If you're gonna get into regulating this stuff, you oughta get into regulating where people can wear perfume as well.

This is nanny-state over-regulation, IMHO.