Video: Contra Costa E-Cigarette Ban

Earlier today, the Huffington Post hosted an online discussion to talk about the proposed Contra Costa County e-cigarette ban that we covered last week.

It’s definitely worth watching. The host, Josh Zepps, was obviously very sympathetic to the idea that banning anything over the fears that it might somehow be dangerous in some unknown way isn’t something that should be acceptable in a  free society. Representatives of both sides of the argument were on hand, including Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston University and Dan Henry of puffweb.com, and they did an excellent job of rebutting the fear-mongering of guests like Cynthia Hallett of Americans for Non-Smokers’ Rights.

We’d actually been invited to attend, and regret that scheduling conflicts kept us from being a part of this lively, informative discussion.  We also apologize for not getting word out about this before the fact, but as you may have noticed, we’ve had some frustrating issues with our hosting provider over the last 24 hours or so.

Huffington Post Live: No E-Cigarettes Allowed

Video: Contra Costa E-Cigarette Ban