E-cigs: The battle happening on nicotine’s next front
Richmond partner Bryan Haynes appeared in an April Washington Post news segment titled: “ E-cigs: The battle happening on nicotine’s next front.” The piece examines the recent rise in e-cigarette use, what exactly e-cigarettes are, the fact that the FDA hasn’t placed any restrictions on them, and how certain states are banning them or have pending litigation to do so in the absence of federal rules.
“Public use of e-cigarettes actually promotes what appears to be a beneficial alternative,” said Bryan, an advocate for the e-cigarette industry. “If you were to argue that something that may look like a cigarette promotes cigarettes in public, you could make that argument about a variety of products. Someone could say that drinking water could look like drinking vodka, but you aren’t going to ban drinking water in public.”