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are on the cusp of trying to determine just how to control the products as scientists try to discover their security.
Aaron Oberndor stands in his own E Cig-City store in Laguna Beach. E-cigarettes are coming under examination by a California senator who like to classify them as tobacco products.
Aaron Oberndor stands in his E Cig-City store in Laguna... (Don Leach, Coastline...)
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Laguna Beach restaurant owners are managing with customers who prefer to boot-up battery powered, vapour-emanating e-cigarettes in the lack of rules regulating use of the products.
No one understands," said Fouad Ziady, general manager of Las Brisas restaurant, which overlooks the ocean. "We don't have an issue [with clients using e-cigarettes], however there is a nosmoking ordinance in the town."
Laguna Beach won't have some regulations pertaining to e-cigarette use, based on John Montgomery, the town's community development director.
State senators passed the bill, 21-10, moving it to the 17 member Assembly Committee on Government Business.
If committee members approve the bill, it would visit the appropriations fiscal committee, like every other proposed laws, Johnson said.
An advocacy group that encourages smokefree choices opposes any effort to regulate e-cigarettes like tobacco.
"E-cigarettes don't emit smoke and also the vapor is non-toxic," the Consumer Advocates for Smoke free Choices Assn.'s website reports. "There isn't any evidence to support including e-cigarette use in smoking bans. E-cigarettes don't provide tar or carbon monoxide because they operate using vaporization as an alternative to combustion."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't regulate e-cigarettes unless the goods manufacturer creates a therapeutic claim, FDA spokeswoman Jennifer Haliski wrote in an e-mail.
Investigators, including UC Riverside science professor Prue Talbot, are studying e-cigarette components as well as their effects on the wellness of consumers and bystanders.
are on the cusp of trying to determine just how to control the products as scientists try to discover their security.
Aaron Oberndor stands in his own E Cig-City store in Laguna Beach. E-cigarettes are coming under examination by a California senator who like to classify them as tobacco products.
Aaron Oberndor stands in his E Cig-City store in Laguna... (Don Leach, Coastline...)
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Laguna Beach restaurant owners are managing with customers who prefer to boot-up battery powered, vapour-emanating e-cigarettes in the lack of rules regulating use of the products.
No one understands," said Fouad Ziady, general manager of Las Brisas restaurant, which overlooks the ocean. "We don't have an issue [with clients using e-cigarettes], however there is a nosmoking ordinance in the town."
Laguna Beach won't have some regulations pertaining to e-cigarette use, based on John Montgomery, the town's community development director.
State senators passed the bill, 21-10, moving it to the 17 member Assembly Committee on Government Business.
If committee members approve the bill, it would visit the appropriations fiscal committee, like every other proposed laws, Johnson said.
An advocacy group that encourages smokefree choices opposes any effort to regulate e-cigarettes like tobacco.
"E-cigarettes don't emit smoke and also the vapor is non-toxic," the Consumer Advocates for Smoke free Choices Assn.'s website reports. "There isn't any evidence to support including e-cigarette use in smoking bans. E-cigarettes don't provide tar or carbon monoxide because they operate using vaporization as an alternative to combustion."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't regulate e-cigarettes unless the goods manufacturer creates a therapeutic claim, FDA spokeswoman Jennifer Haliski wrote in an e-mail.
Investigators, including UC Riverside science professor Prue Talbot, are studying e-cigarette components as well as their effects on the wellness of consumers and bystanders.