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E-Cigarette In-Door Ban Out of DE Committee

E-Cigarettes may be the new thing.

But a Delaware legislative committee has approved a measure that would ban the new nicotine delivery devices in from being used in restaurants bars or other indoor public places.

The vote was 9-3 in the House, Health and Human Development  Committee.

The vote came after vape shop owners said that it would hurt their business not to allow customers to smoke indoors.

Oscar Gonazalez is a disabled veteran who told the committee that vaping helped him kick a 12-year smoking habit.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.