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Fabiola Santiago: E-cigarettes bring threat of new addiction for kids - 04/08/20141 Miami... Page 1 of 2 <br /> Aliami erat <br /> Posted on Tue, Apr. 08, 2014 <br /> Fabiola Santiago: E-cigarettes bring threat of new <br /> addiction for kids <br /> By Fabiola Santiago <br /> fsantiago@.MiamiHerald.com <br /> The other day I drove by a young man <br /> wildly waving a large red sign on a grassy <br /> 10. <br /> median, the kind of mobile advertising one <br /> ,%,. <br /> % sees during tax season. <br /> dP , <br /> Only the happy-go-lucky hipster wasn't <br /> 14 '° -°°° °`' egging on people to meet the deadline on <br /> ' taxes, but peddling the prospect of <br /> addiction, illness, and death. <br /> , , 4, He was directing attention to the sale of e- <br /> r.,_ cigarettes at a gas station convenience <br /> E cI Andr,esk;,AF, store — only steps away from a middle <br /> FILE-A sales associate demonstrates the use of a school. <br /> electronic cigarette and the smoke like vapor that comes <br /> from it in Aurora, Colo. on March 2, 2011. For the uninitiated, electronic cigarettes are <br /> the tobacco industry's latest bad-for-you <br /> product. <br /> With a trendy name and cigarette-likeness, the battery-operated device that turns liquid <br /> nicotine into an odorless, smoke-like vapor has all the trappings of a sales hit among <br /> teenagers. So it's not surprising that e-cigarette use has more than doubled among middle <br /> and high school students in the span of one year, according to the Center for Disease <br /> Control and Prevention. <br /> What adults do with their bodies might be their business, but what they push on our <br /> children is ours. <br /> You might not be able to smell the tobacco-less e-cigarettes, but they contain nicotine and <br /> have the potential to be harmful. By the time a study comes along to confirm that this, too, <br /> kills, and the lawsuits follow, the tobacco industry has already made oodles of money on <br /> the addicted. <br /> Death may be as inevitable as taxes, but who wants to hurry it along? Who wants an <br /> impressionable child hooked for life? <br /> Cities and county governments around the state recognized the dangers of e-cigarettes <br /> and places like Miami, Weston and Sunrise passed ordinances banning their sale to <br /> http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/08/v-print/4047274/fabiola-santiago-e-cigarettes.html 4/11/2014 <br />