San Marcos, Texas has just joined a growing number of Central Texas cities to pass a smoking ordinance. Sharon Teal and Ray Santorelli, owners of Ahh Vapors, had hoped the ban would not extend to electronic cigarettes but it did. The proprietors believe the ban was enacted without proper information. Ahh Vapors specializes in selling vaporizers and e-cigarettes with different levels of nicotine and several flavors for smokers intending on weaning off of cigarettes.
Santorelli and Teal started their business in June. They both have used the vaporizer since last winter and found the health benefits of the product appealing. “It’s a lot healthier. All you’re getting is flavor and nicotine,” Santorelli says. “It doesn’t have all the tar and carcinogens. It’s unbelievable how many carcinogens are in a cigarette.”
Sept. 23, on first reading, the San Marcos City Council unanimously passed the no smoking ordinance and during the second reading, on Oct. 2, electronic cigarettes were added to the ordinance. Smoking will be banned in restaurants, bars, park space and on grounds operated by the city effective June 1, 2014. Nearby cities New Braunfels, San Antonio and Austin also have smoking bans. Forty-one cities in all have passed smoking bans in Texas, with 35 other cities having more limited ordinances.
Vapes or e-cigarettes are not included in the ban enacted eight years ago in Austin, according to the city’s health department. San Marcos inclusion of e-cigarettes in the ban is based on “an uneducated assumption,” says Teal. “I just don’t think they did their research before making that decision.” E-cigarettes were shown to be far less harmful than cigarettes in a recent study released by the Consumer Advocates for Smoke Free Alternatives Association, said Teal.
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