Tag: e-cigarettes
When Commissar Bloomberg first floated the idea of a cigarette ban in 2002 in New York City, my first concern wasn’t how it would impact public health or the city’s bustling nightlife and bars…I wondered how it would affect pot smokers. As mush as I hate cigarettes — they tend to be addictive and kill […]
Vapor-based electronic cigarettes have become a ubiquitous item for people trying to quit, those who want to smoke indoors, and consumers simply hunting for what they believe to be a safer alternative. While the jury is still out on whether or not e-cigs are harmful to the body, they might be harmful to your computer. The […]
The city banned the smoking of electronic cigarettes in public late last year, and now, a smokers’ rights group is suing to have the legislation overturned. The lawsuit’s argument hinges on semantics. As The Verge points out, New York’s constitution requires that “laws must address only one subject, and that subject must be reflected in the title,” […]
In February, Rhizome — notable not-for-profit organization and new media art platform affiliated with the New Museum — will be hosting a one-day New York symposium dedicated to analyzing today’s emerging trends in e-cigarette and vaporizer technologies, the latter topic widely covered here at ANIMAL. The organization aims to “read the e-cigarette socially, politically, aesthetically, economically, and against its […]
