0 an electronic device that looks like a cigarette and allows someone to breathe in nicotine (= the drug found in tobacco) using vapour (= gas from heated water) rather than smoke, so there is no tar (= the harmful black substance produced when tobacco burns)
Instead, the only regulations on e-cigarette usage in public spaces is in public educational facilities and on grounds thereof.
All other indoor places, including workplaces, bars, restaurants, and hotel/motel smoking rooms are excluded from the state's e-cigarette regulations.
The majority of users who tried e-cigarette, continue to smoke traditional cigarettes.
The e-cigarette brands have been rapidly expanding using aggressive marketing campaigns similar to those used to popularize cigarettes in the 1950s and 1960s.
With the spread of e-cigarette use, calls to poison control centers related to possible ingestion or skin exposure to e-cigarette liquids have increased.
In a literary study of e-cigarette health risks, 388 different symptoms were reported, mouth and throat concerns generating more negative symptoms than any other group.
The majority of e-cigarette users continue to smoke traditional cigarettes.
Instead, the only prohibitions on e-cigarette usage that exist are prohibitions on school grounds and at child care facilities, both indoors and outdoors.
