e-Cigarette Smoking Trend
One of America’s largest e-cigarettie manufacturers has signed an agreement to say that they will not target advertising of their product to under age audiences as a ‘safe alternative’ to the real thing.
This situation sparked up an announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to say that they were considering placing a complete restriction on the look-a-like cigarette alternative which seems to be sweeping the nation by force.
The e-cigarette on a whole, is something which was designed to help smokers reduce their level of addiction to normal cigarettes.
now being produced in flavoured alternatives like strawberry, chocolate and bannana, anti-smoking critics say that this is just a profiteering industry who think they can make money from the younger generation through the trend of smoking.
This all arrives in the forefront of the announcement that the government are to consider placing a ban on smoking in open air places, starting in New York.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg who is the New York State Governor, said he wanted to increase the area of no smoking to places where the general public use like Plaza’s, broadwalks and parks.
This style of anti-smoking behaviour has also been adopted in Ireland since 2005, and taken on by the British only two years ago. And whilst smokers firstly complained it would ruin their social acivities like drinking and eating, many businesses have reported an increase in turnover due to non-smokers starting to visit more often.
