NYC Vape-In: panning the ban.

• Author: Feeney, Matthew
• Position: Citings - Brief article

At the end of April, New York City's ban on smoking e-cigarettes in bars, offices, and other so-called public places went into effect. In response to the scheduled ban reason co-hosted a "Vape-in" at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, where participants defied the authority of their paternalistic lawmakers at the stroke of midnight and celebrated the benefits of increasingly popular e-cigarettes, which are now being sold by tobacco companies.

Speaking to Reason TV at the vape-in Bill Godshall of Smokefree Pennsylvania said, "I think these products are just as important for public health as childhood vaccines and antibiotics and sewage treatment and water...