While I disagree with smoking bans, I vehemently detest the connecting vaporizers and ‘e-cigs’ into the same ban. There’s never been any reputable study that shows the slightest negative health effects to the user, and the lone study that claims second hand effects comes from the same source that set off the second hand smoke witch hunt.
It is absolutely inane that something that ‘looks’ like smoking is being banned simply for that ‘feature.’ Worse, these products are pulling people off of cigarettes faster than all other methods combined. And as these devices are banned, users are returning to cigarettes in increasing numbers.
Enough is enough. Had the anti-smokers held back their attacks, cigarettes could nearly have been a thing of the past. But medical solutions give campaign contributions and lobbyist dollars, and these inexpensive and far more importantly, dramatically more effective solution. Add in tobacco companies who write out those checks just as fast to politicians, and whoopie, new bans with absolutely no foundation in any health arena (see the Surgeon General’s report... which had a rather hard time not calling e-cigs healthy.)
LAX has a few outdoor smoking areas, past security out near the far end of the gates. They had a few benches, ashtrays, some plants and open air. A few years ago they decided to keep those locked... can't go out there anymore... simply because the anti-smokers couldn't handle the trauma of looking through the plate glass windows and seeing people smoking outside.