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Police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators clash in tense scene at UCLA encampment; PA groups monitoring soot pollution pleased by new EPA standards; NYS budget bolsters rural housing preservation programs; EPA's Solar for All Program aims to help Ohioans lower their energy bills, create jobs.

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President Biden defends dissent but says "order must prevail" on campus, former President Trump won't commit to accepting the 2024 election results and Nebraska lawmakers circumvent a ballot measure repealing private school vouchers.

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Bidding begins soon for Wyoming's elk antlers, Southeastern states gained population in the past year, small rural energy projects are losing out to bigger proposals, and a rural arts cooperative is filling the gap for schools in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Florida Encouraged to Ditch the "E-Cigs"

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Monday, August 17, 2009   

MIAMI - Is it a cigarette, or a is it drug device? Distributors of so-called e-cigarettes are challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in court this week for confiscating product shipments. Oregon has already banned the sale of the electronic cigarettes, and some health advocates are calling for Florida to follow suit. The battery-powered tubes look like real paper-and-tobacco cigarettes, and contain nicotine and flavors that can be inhaled without producing smoke.

The FDA wants to regulate them as drug devices. The manufacturers call them a safer alternative to smoking. For Dana Kaye with the American Lung Association, that doesn't fly.

"My fear is, people are using them thinking that they're not going to get addicted. We're going to have a new culture of folks hooked on nicotine, that weren't previously."

Kaye says electronic cigarettes don't make nicotine any less addictive, and the FDA has found other chemicals in them, including a component of antifreeze called diethylene glycol.

"I think we see it in some makeup and lotions and that kind of stuff. There's a safe limit of that particular chemical, but not necessarily as an inhaled substance."

Kaye says most of the electronic cigarettes come from China, and their health effects have not been thoroughly tested. With Florida having added another dollar to the cigarette tax last month, some people are concerned that sales of the new e-cigarettes will increase; they are to be found in some Florida shopping malls.


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