Stub out healthy myth of e-cigarettes
ON MONDAY, the local legislature of San Francisco approved a bill that prohibits the production and sales of electronic cigarettes inside the city, which is widely considered an attempt to control the number of youngsters who smoke e-cigarettes. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:
The mayor of San Francisco has 10 days to review the regulation, yet the current mayor London Breed has already expressed her support for it. Should she sign it, the bill will officially come into effect seven months later and San Francisco will be the first big city in the United States to ban e-cigarettes.
That's a very good move because e-cigarettes are no less harmful than traditional ones but their harm is not so widely known. One commercial advertisement after another claims that e-cigarettes are "healthy", "contain little tar", and are "less harmful than traditional cigarettes".
