No smoking also means no vaping.
A blanket smoking ban at University of California campuses includes "electronic cigarettes," the portable vaporizers which emit -- backers claim -- a less-unhealthy plume of vapor upon puffage, according to the Bay Area News Group.
Smokers of the popular devices have until Jan. 2 to vape away before the ban goes into effect.
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About 10 percent of UC staffers and 8 percent of UC students smoke tobacco -- no stats are handy on how many folks around the state's campuses use the e-cigarettes. And there's also no stats available on exactly what goes into the e-cigarettes -- which is partially why it was easy for UC to ban them.
"It's safer to ban these products as a precaution," said Josh Moskowitz, director of the School of Public Health's Center for Family and Community Health, in comments to the newspaper.
E-cigarettes, or vaporizers, use small batteries to heat a small quantity of liquid, which contains nicotine as well as flavoring, according to the newspaper.
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Perhaps oddly, a co-founder of an electronic cigarette lobby agrees with the ban, saying that it's understandable while people "learn" about what an e-cigarette is -- and what's in them.
For UC, it was a ban-first, learn-second decision.
""The onus is on the medical establishment to prove they are harmful," said Moskowitz in comments to the newspaper. "It's clearly messed up."
