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A piece in Pittsburgh’s local news outlet The Tribune Review looks at electronic cigarettes from a rare angle. The piece considers whether electronic cigarette users should be subject to the same policies — particularly increase insurance premiums — that smokers are used to dealing with.

The story is a little bit lacking. Though it finds someone using electronic cigarettes, Matt doesn’t actually deal with any tobacco-related penalties because his employer doesn’t apply them to electronic cigarettes. So although the article mentions that Wal-Mart and UPS both impose tobacco policies on electronic cigarette use, they don’t have a quote talking about how it actually applies to them. It’s a bit like talking to a someone poolside about what it would be like to not have a pool.

Still, the article digs a bit deeper than many e-cig community members might be used to seeing.

You can read the article in full here.

The article does quote a spokesperson at Wal-Mart, however, who does confirm that e-cigs count as tobacco products for the purposes of tobacco-related policies at the company. Those employs do pay higher insurance premiums.

This is yet another angle that forces companies and organizations to take a stance on electronic cigarettes. If companies have to decide whether they count as tobacco-products, they seem more likely to have e-cig using employees looking to educate the people making the decision.