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  E cigarettes are getting a lot of bad press lately. With the recent report of an e cigarette going ballistic as the user was enjoying his e cigarette in bed as the latest. The unexpected launch sent the e cigarette flying into and penetrating the ceiling. The user suffered only minor burns but was a little shaken by the event as evidenced by the 911 call. This will be used as yet one more reason for government to fast track e cigarette regulations.    Case and point. A recent draft bill in a state that will go unmentioned was so over reaching that it would have regulated the vapor you see from your breath in cold weather. That's right.  Punishable by a fine of up to $25.00 for "vaping" with in 8 feet of an entrance to a public building and $100.00 if on school property.   The supporters of the bill said it was an oversight and would be corrected in the final version.

  With a study in their hands that finds electronic cigarettes may expose users to high levels of formaldehyde. the California senate has introduced a bill that would define the controversial devices as tobacco products and treat them as such.       Filed Monday by state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the bill would subject e-cigarettes -- battery-powered tubes that vaporize liquid nicotine instead of burning tobacco -- to the state’s existing anti-smoking laws, effectively banning "vaping" in workplaces, schools, restaurants, bars, hospitals, public transit and everywhere else traditional cigarettes are forbidden.      For those of you who think this is for the good health of California. It's not tobacco you have been smoking to much of. E cigarettes are a response to the bands on tobacco. Ban E cigarettes and the maket will find a new way around the ban.     The bill is sponsored by the American Cancer Society, the ...