Cuomo pushes NY ban on flavored e-cigarette sales in wake of vaping illnesses
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced plans to ban flavored e-cigarettes amid a spate of illnesses and several deaths that have been linked to using vaping devices.
More than 450 cases of possible e-cigarette-related lung illnesses have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control as of Sept. 6, including five confirmed deaths, the agency said on its website.
At a press conference on Monday, Cuomo and New York State Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker urged people to curtail the habit until health officials know more about it.
“Common sense says that if you don’t know what you are smoking, don’t smoke it,” Cuomo said. “And right now, we don’t know what you’re smoking.”
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