Posted on 12/26/2013 3:18:32 PM PST by DallasBiff
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Gov. Mary Fallin has issued an executive order that bans the use of electronic cigarettes and vapor devices on state property, saying the potential long-term health effects of the products are unknown.
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Fallin is an anti-smoking advocate and says that electronic cigarettes and similar products emit vapor that contains chemicals and can impact bystanders
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We can’t have people just doing any danged thing they want to, can we?
Farts have “potential health effects” too. Shall we ban them?
Water vapor is a deadly toxin?
E cigs are alot safer than regular smokes, but that wont stop libs from trying to ban the lesser of two evils...
“No Clear Link Between Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer”, Journal of the National Cancer Institute:
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/105/24/1844.extract
Isn’t fluid build-up in the lung one of the side-effects of pneumonia? I’m not making any judgments; just asking about water vapor in the lungs.
Oklahoma?!? Jeez!
Does a mere governor have that power?
they keep growing government and at the same time taking away our freedoms
when will all these morons realize that government is the problem?
as government expands freedom ,opportunity and civilization contract
we can’t have people actually quit smoking cigarettes now can we?.....we have to make sure a certain number remain addicted so the states can collect all those cigarette taxes...
“Fallin is an anti-smoking advocate and says that electronic cigarettes and similar products emit vapor that contains chemicals and can impact bystanders”
Hogwash. A couple family members of mine use E-Cigs, and you’d have to be sitting right next to them in a broom closet to notice anything. I’m more impacted by the guy having stinky bleu cheese dressing on his salad at lunch at the next table than someone with an E-Cig.
I don’t like bleu cheese much.
Yes, but on;y regarding state owned facilities—not state-wide.
Same with DC—a presidential executive order only pertains to the Federal government activities, not nation wide activities.
Thanks... I missed that part of the story.
Are e-cigarettes taxed? If not, you have the answer to the ban.
control freaks and nothing more.Come on Oklahoma,fire this spert.
Is she a Democrat?
I live in southern Louisiana where the humidity is near 100% pretty much from May to October. I breath lots of water vapor and have yet to be struck down by pneumonia.
Oh, come on, Mary. Just shut up and promote the oil industry and let people smoke - or breathe steam - if they want to.
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