{"id":1304639,"date":"2019-03-02T06:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449524"},"modified":"2019-03-02T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T13:42:13","slug":"colorado-bill-to-ban-vaping-clears-first-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/colorado-bill-to-ban-vaping-clears-first-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado bill to ban vaping clears first hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to ban vaping in public spaces where smoking isn\u2019t allowed has cleared its first Colorado House committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2019A\/bills\/2019a_1076_01.pdf\">bill<\/a>\u00a0would add electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. E-cigarettes heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Sun\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/02\/27\/colorado-indoor-vaping-ban\/?utm_source=The+Sunriser&amp;utm_campaign=200faf6391-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_24f7d21cdb-200faf6391-39144341&amp;mc_cid=200faf6391&amp;mc_eid=1c9cfc63f8\">reports<\/a>\u00a0the House Health &amp; Insurance Committee sent the bill by a 10-1 vote Wednesday to the full House for debate.<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana advocates worried the law would put vape and cigar shops out of business. Lawmakers approved amendments to exclude shops that allow smoking under local ordinances. Cannabis social clubs also would be excluded.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. health officials consider the growth in youth using e-cigarettes an epidemic. A Colorado study suggests 27 percent of minors use the devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/regional\/colorado-bill-to-ban-vaping-clears-first-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to ban vaping in public spaces where smoking isn\u2019t allowed has cleared its first Colorado House committee hearing. The\u00a0bill\u00a0would add electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. E-cigarettes heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled. The Colorado Sun\u00a0reports\u00a0the House Health &amp; Insurance Committee sent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 08:42:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}