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 A state senator hopes to keep e-liquid from kids' hands by looking into making it a petty offense for merchants to promote the theifs to minors and then for minors to buy them.

 

 "If we will say minors can't buy regular cigarettes, it does not seem valid to talk about they could gain access to electronic cigarette starter kits," said Sen. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler. "Hopefully some less youth are affected nicotine addictions with this ban."

 The so-called e cig best are battery-powered plastic and metal devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution that users inhale as a mist. They're accessible in many hundreds flavors, including cherry, chocolate and beer, plus the flavors of popular cigarette brands.

 Though companies often claim it doesn't sell to buyers under 18 or that the e-cigarettes are widely used to help smokers quit, Arizona youth can legally purchase them even if they are unable to buy cigarettes.

 SB 1280 won preliminary approval recently through the Senate Committee on the Whole, establishing a last vote that could send it to your House. The penalty for your petty offense is a fine nearly $300.

 Supporters of the bill say the fruity or candy flavors are one good reason that e-cigarettes are well-liked by the younger generation.

 Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, whose office pushed for your ban and registered its support to the bill, said e-cigarettes often leads children into addiction.

 "It amounts to just an alternate way to get the younger generation addicted to nicotine has been these flavors to entice the theifs to use these products," Horne said.

 

 David Goerlitz, president with the Tobacco Vapor Ecigarette Association, and that is based near Atlanta, said the supports banning e-cigarettes for minors.

 "Businesses that target kids, shame with them," he explained. "They should lose their license and stay fined severely, exactly like you would for tobacco. Any law that prevails for tobacco also need to prevail for e cigs."

 James Sanders, the master of A-Z Smokeless, a digital cigarette business run internet and away from his Goodyear home, said he doesn't encourage nicotine use by minors in any form.

 His website requires patrons to confirm a box saying they're 18 before they earn an acquisition.

 "If they're on the internet and they're by using a debit card and so they say they're 18, I want to trust actually," Sanders said.

 When customers go shopping at his home, Sanders said he asks them for ID whenever they seem to be younger than 18, though nearly all of his patrons are older people who choose e-cigarettes choice to smoking.

 The U.S. Food has attempt to regulate e-cigarettes as unapproved drug-delivery devices and forestall them from being imported in to the country without further testing, but several e-cigarette companies challenged the FDA's authority. The FDA lost in federal court in Washington, D.C., in December, as well as on Jan. 24 a request to appeal your decision was denied.

 Now, we're considering our next procedures in relation to its what we'll do continuing to move forward, said Jeff Ventura, a spokesman with the FDA Center for Cigarettes.

 Because e-cigarettes are unregulated on the federal level, states and municipalities are coming in for the issue, he explained.

 Several other states are thinking about banning e-cigarettes for minors, and Washington recently passed a ban.

 The U.S. Department of transportation said this month that it promises to issue the state run ban of e cigs on airplanes early in the year.