Story highlights Rep. Duncan Hunter wasn't blowing "smoke" when he made his case against an amendment to ban vaping on planes

Actually, it was something more like water vapor

(CNN) Rep. Duncan Hunter wasn't blowing "smoke" when he made his case against an amendment to ban vaping on planes.

Actually, it was something more like water vapor.

A vocal supporter of e-cigarettes, the California Republican proudly declared, "Yes, I vape," in an op-ed last year.

On Thursday, he opened his argument to allow the practice on flights by inhaling a load of e-juices.

"So this is called a vaporizer," Hunter said as his neighbor tried (literally) to clear the air. "There's no combustion, there are no carcinogens ... there is no burning, there is nothing noxious about this whatsoever."

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