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Bullitt County, Kentucky
users of e-cigarettes are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Bullitt County Board of Health. Some, like Tony Thompson who has used e-cigarettes for six months, tell me they feel burned by the new rules. "There's a little red light on the end here that lights up so it looks like a cigarette," Thompson said as he showed his e-cigarette.
"It gives you the feel of a cigarette, but, again there's no second hand smoke. The only thing that you're inhaling is water vapor." Second hand smoke is one of the reasons the Bullitt County Board of Health voted to ban smoking in public places, a ban that includes e-cigarettes.
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Madison County, Kentucky
RICHMOND — “We’ll see you in court,” angry audience members yelled Wednesday night as they left a Madison County Health Board meeting. “You sorry people can’t run Madison County by yourself,” one woman said on her way out of the meeting.
“I thought the board of health was supposed to educate, not legislate.” The board had just voted 8-1 to include devices known as e-cigarettes in it regulations that ban smoking in indoor public places.
“Hold on,” one man called out, when the board moved on to the next item on its agenda. “We’d like to speak. We thought this was America.”
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