© Copyright Vapor Time.Website Design and Hosting by Brands you will find at Vapor Time: Flavor brands you will find at Vapor Time: Mobile, Saraland, or Spanish Fort.Click here for a map to eachBy | on July 22, 2014 at 1:27 PM, updated MOBILE, Alabama – It's not uncommon for Mary Jo Martino and other non-smoking youths in Mobile to go out on a weekend night and see their peers puffing on an electronic cigarette."Even though they are not harmful, it's not good to get into the habit of smoking," Martino, 17, a senior at UMS-Wright High School said Tuesday."They sell them at gas stations, smoke shops.They are easy to get."The Mobile City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that restricts the sale of e-cigarettes, water vapor sticks and hookahs – all considered alternative nicotine products compared to tobacco products – to minors under age 18.For now on, in Mobile, retailers will have to request an identification in order to sell an alternative form of tobacco use to a minor.

"We're trying to get children our age to not get into the habit of smoking," Martino said."This makes it more difficult for 16 and 17 year olds to not get into the habit of smoking so they don't end up smoking cigarettes and marijuana.The council's vote is the result of concerns raised by the Mobile City-County Youth Council in April about what they felt was a rise in underage minors using alternative nicotine products."We want to make certain we are protecting the lives and the innocence of any of our young people in the city of Mobile from these products," Councilman Levon Manzie said last week."We believe, and statistical data shows, that this is a gateway to other drugs they might want to partake in.Just as the traditional cigarette is curtailed to minors, we want to make sure our ordinance is curtailed as well."The proposed ordinance was presented by council attorney Jim Rossler, who said a violator faces fines between $200-$500, jail time or community service.Rossler said that while Alabama state law prohibits minors from using e-cigarettes and water vapor pipes, there was no regulation placed on retail establishments selling them to underage youths.

Alabama law does not regulate hookahs.Mobile's ordinance is the first regulation in the city on alternative nicotine.Other cities, like Folely, have already approved bans on using e-cigarettes and other devices in public facilities.Similar proposals have been introduced in Daphne and Orange Beach.E-cigarette and hookah use has grown in recent years as people look for alternatives to smoking tobacco cigarettes.Health officials, though, have warned that the alternatives are not safe.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the charcoal used to heat the tobacco can raise health risks by producing high levels of carbon monoxide, metals, and cancer-causing chemicals.E-cigarettes are tubes containing a battery, a heater and liquid containing a mixture that includes nicotine.The liquid is heated to a vapor by the battery.The smoker inhales and exhales the vapor which looks like smoke.Hookahs, which are becoming popular at restaurants and bistros in Mobile and elsewhere, are water pipes used to smoke specially made tobacco and, in some cases, tea leaves.

Some of the tobacco comes in different flavors such as mint, cherry, chocolate, licorice, etc., something that the Youth Council said in April was a marketing effort aimed at youths.e cigarette laredo txThe CDC reported last year the percentage of high school students who reported using an e-cigarette more than doubled from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10.0 percent in 2012.las vegas e cigaretteShowing1-30 of 39results12NextDidn't find what you were looking for?magnifying glassVapor 'DreamzI LIKE GOING THERE IT'S MY STORE THAT HAS WHAT I NEED.e cigarette kinvaraTHANKS FOR BEING THERE FOR US.e cigarette napier

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It would be structured similarly to the sale of tobacco cigarettes, which cannot be sold to minors."We want to make certain we are protecting the lives and the innocence of any of our young people in the city of Mobile from these products," Councilman Levon Manzie said Thursday.The proposed ordinance will be presented by council attorney Jim Rossler, who said a violator would face fines between $200-$500, jail time or community service."State law doesn't make it unlawful for a store to sell to the minor," Rossler said."This ordinance goes that next step.It states it's unlawful for any person directly or indirectly or by vending machine to sell or purchase any alternative nicotine (from the retail establishment)."Manzie said he doesn't foresee any problems with the ordinance passing the council, but Councilman Joel Daves said he believes the proposal could be forwarded to a council committee for further discussion."There are a lot of products hitting the stores now that were there a year or two ago," Daves said.

"It's hard for state law and municipal law to keep up with it.The council was made aware of the number of gaps in state law and this would be an effort (to close some of them)."Rossler said the Mobile ordinance is similar to state provisions in Mississippi and Florida.He said that Alabama state law does not address the retail sale of e-cigarettes, vapor stick or hookah sales.Alabama law does prohibit youths under age 19 from partaking in alternative smoking, but it does not regulate hookahs.Some individual cities are regulating the products themselves.For instance, the city of Troy banned smoking of any kind from taking place indoors.There are no exceptions.But other cities haven't addressed e-cigarette, water vapor and hookahs.The issue has not approached city officials in either Huntsville or Montgomery.Studies show that e-cigarette and hookah use is on the rise.The Center for Disease Control reported last year the percentage of high school students who reported using an e-cigarette more than doubled from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10 percent in 2012.

Some of the products are advertised for youths.Products come in colorful packaging and fruity flavors that are appealing toward youths.The CDC reports that water vapor smoking delivers nicotine, the same highly addictive drug found in other tobacco products.The center also reports that hookahs can be as toxic cigarette smoke.But hookah and e-cigarette bars are becoming a hot trend in recent in years especially in larger cities like New York, where a local group is suing the city for its e-cigarette ban in bars, restaurants and elsewhere.Among the concerns, the group says, is that the ban has nothing to do with curbing the effects of second-hand smoke.In Mobile, the concerns about e-cigarettes, water vapor sticks and hookahs emerged before the council during a City-County Youth Council meeting in which a group of teens expressed concerns about the prevalence of alternative smoking among teens.Youth Council members told the City Council in April that there are establishments in Mobile that allow underage youths to smoke hookahs and electronic cigarettes.