Thursday, April 16, 2015

Model Society

How to Regulate E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Smoking Devices
A Model Ordinance & flowchart




As the popularity of electronic cigarettes skyrockets, many communities have been increasingly concerned about the appeal of these products to minors, and about the potential risk to public health posed by e-cigarette vapor in places otherwise required to be smokefree, such as schools, hospitals, workplaces, etc.








Some communities already have local laws that regulate the sales and use of tobacco products. For those communities, regulating e-cigarettes can be as simple as amending the definitions of “tobacco products” and “smoking” to ensure that those terms are broad enough to cover the full range of emerging electronic devices and the ways in which they are used.



For communities that don’t have local laws regulating tobacco, we've developed a new model ordinance...

...For California communities that are interested in viewing model policy language relating to e-cigarettes, please contact us to request technical assistance

Source.

Emphasis mine. The quotes are theirs.

Baby steps, descending.
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The reason why - I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell
                                                 - Tom Brown

2 comments:

  1. The dangerous elderly should be more assiduously primed to mind their own bowel health rather than what others are putting into their own lungs...,

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    1. I enjoy the casual ease with which we don't even need new laws. Just think, change the definitions of "rape," "loitering," "tax," "threaten," and "excessive force," and by god, we might just make some real progress. So simple.

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