San Francisco is preparing a ban on e-cigarettes

San Francisco is preparing to ban the sale of e-cigarettes in the city in a bid to block the access of minors. But the new legislation It can also harm adult smokers who choose the e-cigarette.

City officials today unanimously voted to pass two bills: banning the sale of e-cigarettes in San Francisco and a separate bill banning the sale, production and distribution of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, in stores owned by or managed by the city.

The bill banning the sale of e-cigarettes in city stores, as well as the delivery of e-cigarettes purchased electronically for delivery to San Francisco addresses, needs a final approval.

If it passes (a very likely outcome after the council voted 11-0 to pass the decree), it will take effect seven months after it is signed by the mayor. Juul, a San Francisco-based e-cigarette and tobacco company, has already begun pushing for a ban.

The second proposed decree banning the sale of e-cigarettes to any property in the city must pass a second vote next week before it can take effect.

It appears to have been designed with Juul in mind, since the company's headquarters (Pier 70) are located in city-owned buildings. (Juul recently bought a tower in Mission Street, but says it plans to keep its headquarters at Pier 70.)

Many of the most serious concerns concern the use of e-cigarettes by minors. An investigation of Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of middle and secondary students educations using tobacco products increased from 3,6 million in 2017 to 4,9 million in 2018. The increase is partly due to the use of e-cigarettes which increased from 2,1 million in 2017 to 3,6 million in 2018 among middle and secondary school students.

The use of e-cigarettes by minors is undeniably harmful, especially since nicotine can harm brain development. Juul, which controls three-quarters of the US market of e-cigarettes according to Nielsen, has been blamed for helping to increase teen tobacco use by lowering any barrier to entry for nicotine addiction. It is currently trying to win a favorable position with regulators by taking steps to prevent underage users from accessing its products.

However, banning the sale of e-cigarettes can also harm adult smokers who use them to quit smoking.

Although many of the liquids contain nicotine, there are some that do not contain the highly addictive substance, or contain very small amounts

Although the negative effects of both nicotine and cigarettes have been documented by scientists, the e-cigarette is a relatively new technology, so there are still few available information about how it can affect health. A study by researchers at Roswell Park Regional Cancer Center (Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Centerfound that the urine of people using e-cigarettes contained higher traces of heavy metals, lead, cadmium, pyrene and acrylonitrile than those of non-smokers or non-smokers.

On the other hand, some researchers claim that the use of e-cigarettes helps adult smokers to quit or reduce their dependence on cigarettes.

For example, the UK government recently launched a campaign to persuade smokers to switch to vaping. In one sense, the ideal solution would be to not smoke at all, but Public Health England, a government agency, claims that vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking and that data from thecutting of smoking showed that 65% to 68% of smokers who used e-cigarettes with nicotine replacement therapy successfully quit smoking.

Of course we should mention that everyone now agrees with the ban on scented products for the electronic cigarette.

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