Amid Bans, Smokers Take Up 'E-Cigarettes' to Get Their Nicotine Fix

Sunday Gazette-Mail › February 09, 2009

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MINNEAPOLIS - Last year, several Minnesota judges ruled that smokers can't pretend to be actors and bars can't pretend to be theaters to get around the state smoking ban.

Now, bar customers are showing up with little smokeless nicotine inhalers that pretend to be cigarettes, right down to the lighted red tip.

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Amid Bans, Smokers Take Up 'E-Cigarettes' to Get Their Nicotine Fix

Although state health officials say the battery-powered atomizers - called "e-cigarettes" - don't appear to violate the ban, they are causing some...

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