State Senator Mark Leno, of San Francisco, announced that he was dropping his bill to regulate electronic cigarettes. He made the decision after an Assembly committee gutted the bill's main purpose, which was to designate e-cigarettes as a "tobacco" product. It would have also made giving minors e-cigarettes a misdemeanor. Opponents said the tobacco designation should come from the federal government.
Bill to Regulate Electronic Cigarettes Dropped in Assembly
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