Mar. 2, 2015
California Lawyer - Feature Story: Ifs, Ands, or Butts
As the FDA drafts federal e-cigarette rules, it faces a key question: Can vaping reduce nicotine dependence, or is it a gateway to smoking tobacco?
By Thomas Peele
One morning last December I walked past the no-smoking signs at the gas pumps outside an Oakland 7-Eleven, and entered through a door beneath the green and orange façade.
Behind the counter, near pints of Jack Daniels and Jagermeister, were rows of cigarette packages: Marlboros, Camels, Newports. Next to them was something else: electronic cigarettes. They generate vapor--not smoke--produced when the user inhales from a nicotine-laced solution superheated by...
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