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They want to ban a safer alternative to cigarettes for people addicted to nicotine? Are they trying to make the health consequences of their existing drug abus

• yellowapple 7y ago
  \begin{tinfoil} The rich and politically-connected SF elite figure this'll kill the underclass faster by pushing them toward cigarettes. \end{tinfoil} More seriously, I'm more-or-less in favor of banning e-cigarettes... if they actually bothered to ban actual cigarettes, too. The failure to pass a general nicotine ban has turned a presumably-well-intentioned piece of legislation into yet another paver on the road to Hell. EDIT: apparently the actual laws are more nuanced than that, and while they do specifically target electronic cigarettes, that targeting is as an example of a class of product not previously considered under existing legislation. I haven't read through the full details on the relevant ordinances[1][2], but it ain't quite as simple as "SF wants to extort Juul for money"; on the surface they actually seem pretty well-reasoned. [1]: https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190311%20Leg%20Review.pdf https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190311%2... [2]: https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190312%20Leg%20Review_0.pdf https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190312%2...