As of noon today, it's illegal to puff an e-cigarette anywhere where regular cigarettes are banned in New York City. As Gothamist reports, Albany officials want to make this a statewide ban.
According to the bill, this new push is the result of what lawmakers feels is a lack of regulation by the FDA, as secondhand smoke is still polluting the lives of non-smokers:
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Business owners will most likely be tasked with the duty of displaying signage about the new rule in the coming months. Vaping just got a lot more complicated in NYC.
[via Gothamist]
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