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Proposed changes by City Administrator Dan Buchholtz were altered after the March 16 City Council meeting to clarify that electronic cigarette use is allowed in the city.
E-cigarettes are not prohibited under the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, though cities were given the authority to regulate e-cigarettes last year.
Until there is definitive proof that e-cigarette vapors are harmful, City Council Member Bob Nelson does not want the city to ban them, he said.
“You couldn’t eat eggs – now you can have 10 a day,” Nelson said, pointing to research bouncing one way then the other in several cases.
Nelson himself smokes e-cigarettes, and they have helped him reduce the amount of traditional cigarettes he smokes.
“I went from a pack a day to one pack a week,” he said. “It really helps with quitting smoking.”
Banning e-cigarettes should not be a city decision, Nelson said.
Council Member Ken Wendling agreed: If businesses did not want e-cigarettes smoked indoors, “I think the businesses would ban (them) on their own ….”
http://abcnewspapers.com/2015/03/27/spring-lake-park-to-update-tobacco-regulations/
E-cigarettes are not prohibited under the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, though cities were given the authority to regulate e-cigarettes last year.
Until there is definitive proof that e-cigarette vapors are harmful, City Council Member Bob Nelson does not want the city to ban them, he said.
“You couldn’t eat eggs – now you can have 10 a day,” Nelson said, pointing to research bouncing one way then the other in several cases.
Nelson himself smokes e-cigarettes, and they have helped him reduce the amount of traditional cigarettes he smokes.
“I went from a pack a day to one pack a week,” he said. “It really helps with quitting smoking.”
Banning e-cigarettes should not be a city decision, Nelson said.
Council Member Ken Wendling agreed: If businesses did not want e-cigarettes smoked indoors, “I think the businesses would ban (them) on their own ….”
http://abcnewspapers.com/2015/03/27/spring-lake-park-to-update-tobacco-regulations/