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Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state. Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (38 total): Austin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; use of vaporized medical marijuana permitted wherever not prohibited by State law [3]
The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any type of nationwide federal smoking ban in workplaces and public places. Therefore, such policies are entirely a product of state and local laws. In 1995, California was the first state to enact a statewide smoking ban for restaurants. [1]
A 2015 study analyzing 10 puffs reported that vaping at a high voltage (5.0 V) generates formaldehyde in e-cigarette vapor; they inferred from the finding that the user vaping at high voltage with 3 ml of e-liquid daily would inhale 14.4±3.3 mg of formaldehyde daily in formaldehyde-emitting chemicals. [226]
Sen. Carri Hicks, D-Oklahoma City, has an interim study on youth vaping and policy solutions. The outcome could be a bill that would raise the age to purchase the product to 21 years old and more ...
It does not ban vaping in public places. [19] It requires the purchaser for e-cigarettes to be at least 18 and does not permit buying them for anyone less than 18 years of age. [10]: 39 The updated Tobacco Products Directive has been disputed by tobacco lobbyists whose businesses could be impacted by these revisions. [20]
E-cigarette proponents frequently highlight the smoke-free aspect of vaping and that these devices can be used where tobacco is currently restricted. [43] Marketing that accentuates that e-cigarettes can be used anywhere may undermine enforcement of smoke-free policies and tobacco control efforts and expose non-users to toxicants. [43]
Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [336] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."
[4] [5] Current smokers are estimated to die an average of 10 years earlier than non-smokers. [6] The World Health Organization estimates that, in total, about 8 million people die from tobacco-related causes, including 1.3 million non-smokers due to secondhand smoke. [7] It is further estimated to have caused 100 million deaths in the 20th ...