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Council member Julie Menin (D-Manhattan) is introducing a bill Thursday that will make selling all disposable e-cigarettes to adults and minors illegal in the city, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Disposable electronic cigarettes, also known as disposable vapes, combine various materials like plastics, metals, and electronic components, which present numerous environmental concerns. These single-use devices, while convenient, add to the growing problem of electronic waste due to their complex composition and the difficulties inherent in ...
Visitors at the launch parties in New York City and other places were encouraged to post selfies on social media. [114] After a 2010 law was revised to include e-cigarettes, Juul started asking people to pay a $1.00 for the device. [114] Juul does "very little marketing," a representative from the company, stated in 2018. [115]
In October 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins University reported over 2,000 unknown chemicals in the vape clouds that they tested from Vuse, Juul, Blu and Mi-Salt vape devices. [ 171 ] In 2019–2020, there was an outbreak of vaping-related lung illness in the US and Canada, primarily related to vaping THC with vitamin E acetate .
What came next was a viral tweet of a photo of a Pac-Man-like game on the Craftbox V-Play 20K disposable vape. In a Zoom video with The Times, Wong held up the attention-grabbing smart vape.
Under the new rules, fines for retailers caught selling regulated products like vapes and cigarettes to minors would be increased from NZ$10,000 (about $6,000) to NZ$100,000 ($60,000).
Though the city-wide smoking ban remains intact, the vaping ban itself was lifted in 2016 due to a state law which was passed then, prohibiting e-cigarettes and vape products from being regulated in the same way as tobacco. In 2019 the city-wide vaping ban was reinstated, via a separate ordinance, by a unanimous vote from the City Council. [19 ...
Therapeutic vapes with a nicotine concentration of 20 mg/mL or less are available from a pharmacy to anyone 18 years or older subject to a pharmacists approval. Therapeutic vapes with a nicotine concentration greater than 20 mg/mL or for anyone under 18 require a prescription. [168] Australia is developing regulations on e-cigarettes. [169]