eCigarettes here and there

A bill having eCigarettes treated the same as their tobacco predecessors as far as where smoking is allowed is being proposed in California.

The days of nibbling on a "pen" in a boring meeting may soon be over. The small knowing frown of the flight attendant will give way to a "sir, please do not smoke".

The K-landnews famous anticipation of future problems includes a man getting tasered because he did not drop that pen fast enough. The newspaper will report that it was a real pen. The police will justify the tasering with a statement including "the officer had to assume this was an eCigarette because nobody uses pens in public any more, they just type notes into their smartphone or WPads".
What none of them will say is that the officer in question was suffering from nicotine withdrawal himself, making this usually even tempered public servant edgy and short tempered.

Let us know if any of this happens.

We still have the Susan B. dollar and will hand it out as a reward (minus shipping and handling). In this specific instance, it will go the the officer.

Before you complain about how hard life is going to be for eCigarette users in the U.S., please take note of the fact that is is already much harder here.

German customs have the custom of raiding stores that sell these contraptions.

We use the word "custom" not only because we love cheap word play but because the patterns and reasons are like any good custom: different from place to place, any real reason that may have existed for the behavior has been lost in the fog of time and now they just do it because they can.

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