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 seems that it was designed for Juul, since the company's headquarters (Pier 70) are located in buildings belonging to the city. (Juul recently bought a tower on Mission Street, but says she plans to maintain her 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 secondary and secondary school students using tobacco products increased from 3,6 million in 2017 to 4,9 million in 2018. The increase is due in part to the use of e-cigarettes which increased from 2,1 million in 2017 to 3,6 million in 2018 among secondary and high school students.

The use of e-cigarettes by minors is undoubtedly harmful, especially because nicotine can impair brain development. Juul, who controls three-quarters of the U.S. e-cigarette market, according to Nielsen, has been accused of helping to increase adolescent tobacco use by lowering any barriers to entry for nicotine addiction. It is currently trying to gain a favorable position from 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 is still little information available on how it can affect health. A study by researchers at the 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 vaporizing. In a way, the ideal solution would be to not smoke at all, but the Public Health Department of England, a government agency, claims that vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking and that data from the smoking cessation program 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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