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After a rash of illnesses and deaths across the United States that health officials believe to be linked to vaping, Massachusetts has announced a four-month ban on all vaping products that has already gone into effect. The newly announced ban, which Republican Governor Charlie Baker enacted after declaring a public health emergency, is currently scheduled …
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A new report from Rice Media is shining light on a particularly obvious downside to Singapore’s electronic cigarette ban, namely the inability for the country’s smokers turned vapers to continue vaping instead of smoking. Singapore’s electronic cigarette ban, which was announced in November of 2017, went into effect on February 2, 2018. Benjamin Lim, reporting …
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The city council in Lafayette, Indiana has voted in favor of adding vaping to the city smoking ordinance, which would, if passed on the second reading, effectively ban the use of vaporizers and electronic cigarettes in the city’s restaurants, shops, and anywhere else smoking is already prohibited. Currently, smoking is banned anywhere that a person …
In the Asian country of Singapore, an island city-state, authorities have already banned shisha tobacco and the devices most commonly used to smoke it, hookahs. Now, electronic cigarettes are in the country’s crosshairs. In November of 2017, the government of Singapore banned electronic cigarettes in their entirety. That ban is now scheduled to go into …
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If you vape in Thailand, you do so at your own risk. In the Southeast Asian country of Thailand, which is world renown for its tropical beaches among other things, those who vape do so at the risk of potential imprisonment as vaping products are just as illegal in the country as hard drugs like …
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In Australia, it’s illegal to to use or possess liquid nicotine, which is what electronic cigarettes and liquid vaporizers use to deliver nicotine aerosols (“vapor”) to their users. Meanwhile, it’s perfectly legal, so long as one is of age, to buy and smoke cigarettes, which also contain nicotine. However, there’s a catch: vapers who want …