Idaho legislation would ban e-cigarette sales to minors

[The Straight Story]

Idaho legislation would ban e-cigarette sales to minors

BOISE, Idaho — Lawmakers in the Idaho House introduced legislation to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors.

The so-called e-cigarettes allow the user to heat nicotine, herbs or other substances and ingest the active ingredients without actually burning the substance.

But Republican Rep. Bob Nonini, of Coeur d'Alene, says state health officials are increasingly concerned about sales of the devices to children. Nonini brought legislation to the House Health & Welfare Committee on Friday that would prohibit sales of e-cigarettes to minors.
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Advocates for banning sales of the devices to kids say it will send an important message about smoking in general.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/b1ab004730cf4c88969cb3671cf3e43e/ID-XGR--E-Cigarette-Ban/

[Major Hogwash]

1. So?

Don't pay any attention to what those wads in Idaho's state legislature discuss as bills.
I don't, and I live here.

It's just a waste of time until the bill comes out of committee anyway.

[rustydog]

2. good, why encourage a bad habit?

What could possibly be the purpose of selling a smoking product to minors except for the "cool" effect.

[Astrad]

3. No smoke, uses steam. n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Steam implies water.

eJuice is propylene glycol (fog machine stuff), glycerine (sweetner, fluffer), nicotine and flavorings (optional).

Honestly, I smoke both - analogues and e-cigs and if we can stop from putting these out there to kids as 'cool', I am all for it.

Just don't misrepresent.

[phleshdef]

10. Well, its basically a hand held fog machine.

But I agree. I'd rather see them regulated and put in the same domain as cigarettes from a regulatory perspective. Just as long as they don't try to ban the devices themselves.

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. Basically doesn't get the legal argument

I get the legal issue, and have a gallon of PG under my sink as I have been DIY on eJuice for several years out of the same legal challenges from the FDA and Judge Leon's oversight on said cases.

However, calling e-Cigs "just steam" doesn't speak to the argument of harm reduction and the need to prevent kids from getting started on a lifetime nicotine habit whenever/wherever possible, no?

[jmowreader]

4. It will never happen

Idaho is the state that can't figure out how to write a texting-while-driving ban.

Two years ago, they wrote a real simple "you will not text while driving" ban and Raul Labrador killed it. (Then he got himself elected to Congress, so the rest of y'all can experience the fine leadership Idahoans had under him.)

A year ago, they wrote a "texting while driving is forbidden if it impairs or distracts the driver" bill, and the whole Legislature killed it on the grounds it was fucking stupid.

One of our esteemed repuke legislators says this is the year they're gonna pass a bill finally, really they are...

Back to the e-cigarette ban: I figure Dick Harwood (who is the most-right-wing legislator in the State of Idaho, and you've got to work at it to be that) and Phil Hart (our tax-evading timber-stealing representative) will gang up and pronounce it a "job killing regulation," and then it will die. Some jobs need to be killed, y'know?

[IDemo]

5. We must have the only governmental body in the US

Where getting drunk, ripping off an SUV and going for a joy-ride, and causing damage to other vehicles in the process, isn't enough to get you booted from a leadership position.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

6. Or a governor that wears his DUIs like a badge of honor

McGee is just following in Butch's (staggering) footsteps.

[IDemo]

8. Why, shoot, jus' a bit of whiskey soaked tobakky, officer!

[phleshdef]

9. I'm an e-cig user and I'm perfectly okay with this.

[Saving Hawaii]

11. I've occasionally been impressed with some of Idaho's legislation.

The "Idaho Stop" legislation that was written up for bicyclists is fantastic and other states should follow suit. Basically it allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yields and red lights as stop signs. Both make a lot of sense.