More legislation that will affect e-cigarettes is being planned by states across the USA. This includes increasing the age at which you can buy them from 18 to 21. Again this sees e-cigarettes being labelled as tobacco products which simply isn't right.





States planning action include Oregon and Washington with Sacramento having passed a bill this week. New York City and Hawaii County have already increased the minimum age to 21. The action comes after a Institute of Medicine study that looked at the potential outcomes of raising the legal age for tobacco products. It came to the conclusion that it would cause a 12 percent drop because it would be harder for them to find someone of a legal age to buy them tobacco products. All a bit logical really, I wonder how much they get paid for working that out.





In Sacramento their bill passed this Tuesday puts e-cigarettes in the same classification as tobacco products . Hardly logical when there's no tobacco in e-cigarettes, perhaps milk will be classified as an alcoholic product soon. Proponent of the Sacramento bill was Sen. Mark Leno who's nowhere near as funny as Jay. His bill prohibits e-cigarettes being used at workplaces, schools and public places in line with the state's Smoke Free Act. The fact that e-cigarettes are smoke free has obviously not been noticed by the interfering senator.





He commented how e-cigarettes are becoming more popular among middle and high school students. That's a choice they are making because the product is safer than the poisonous tobacco cigarettes but he doesn't mention that of course. The only time he will is when the panic starts over the falliing tax revenue from tobacco cigarettes and the quest for replacement finances. His bill makes it a misdemeanor to sell e-cigarettes to minors, not that the e-cigarette industry does anyway.





Of course the ill informed senator has to go on and on about how e-cigarettes "are being marketed to minors" thanks to flavors such as gummy bears and watermelon and Mountain Dew. But doesn't he think to himself, why does the e-cigarette industry market their product to youngsters yet not even let them in vaping stores let alone sell to them? It's like the Republican Party spending time persuading 15 year-old to support them while knowing they can't vote in the next election.



