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I’m for regulating this as stringently as for regular cigs... but it’s weird... they don’t bother addicts injecting, they provide needles and let them shoot up, no problem. But you wanna vape? Nah!

If they think banning is a solution to vaping and it’ll be successful, why not ban syringes —I’m sure they’re equally effective.

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There’s a public health reason for that. How many people have ever contracted HIV from a used e-cigarette?

Hepatitis A, B and Swine Flu. You can literally buy little plastic condoms for your e-cigs. Don't pass that e-cig in the club kids.

On a different note, as someone who's used e-cigs to wean off cigarettes and eventually quit altogether, this ban is pants-on-head puritanical stupidity.

> You can literally buy little plastic condoms for your e-cigs.

That's both an amusing mental image and a pretty great idea. One that has no analog with hypodermic needles, so it's still a false comparison.

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