The first bill, which stops the sale of e cigarette products to minors, took effect immediately. The second, which bans the use of e cigarette products just about everywhere, including stores, movie theaters, museums, schools, common areas of apartment buildings, and hotels, will take effect July 1.

“We don’t know yet what effects e cigarette vapor may have on their users or on the people around them, but we do know that e cigarette vapor has been found to contain nicotine,” said Nutter, the architect behind the city’s smoking ban in 2007. “We believe that erring on the side of caution is important for the health, safety, and welfare of all of our citizens.”

Nutter on Wednesday called the bills, originally sponsored by City Councilman William K. Greenlee, a “sensible extension” of the 2007 Clean Indoor Air Worker Protection Law.

New Jersey in 2010 was the first major jurisdiction in the nation to ban the use of e cigarettes in most public places, joined later by the states of Utah and North Dakota. Several major cities Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have done so as well. At least 26 states, including New Jersey, ban sales to minors a bill is pending in Harrisburg.

E cigarettes are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, although new rules are expected soon. Supporters of local legislation say that the devices potentially pose serious public health concerns, especially to children and teenagers.

Opponents argue that the vapor produced by e cigs is harmless. Vaping, advocates say, can help wean longtime smokers off cigarettes. A citywide ban on vaping in public places, they say, is unenforceable.

Conley, a volunteer with the National Vapers Club, said he had smoked cigarettes for eight years before he tried a watermelon flavored e cig.

“It helped me quit overnight,” the 27 year old said.

In the South Street neighborhood, where several vape shops have sprouted up over the last year, e cig enthusiasts were also disappointed with Wednesday’s legislation.

“It’s a no brainer that it shouldn’t be sold to minors, but that doesn’t mean vaping should be treated like smoking,” said Michael Chhem, co owner of Love Vape, 608 S. Fifth St.

Hours after Nutter gave his seal of approval to both bills, Chhem, 23, sat with several friends and coworkers inside his store, puffing away on a battery powered, green apple flavored device as vapor filled the small, colorful room.

For Conley, the e cig debate in Philadelphia should come down to a matter of choice.

“If 99 percent of all Philadelphia businesses decided to, on their own, ban e cigarette use, that’s their right,” Conley said. “But what about the 1 percent that wants to allow them? It doesn’t make any sense.”

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This is a list of countries by annual per capita consumption of tobacco cigarettes.

Cigarettes are smoked by over 1.1 billion people. While smoking rates have leveled off or declined in developed nations, in developing nations tobacco consumption continues to rise at a rate of around 3.4% per annum. citation needed

Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006 falling from 42% to 20.8% of adults, 1 with further significant decline to 18 percent by 2012. 2 There are large regional differences in smoking rates, with Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Mississippi topping the list, and Idaho, California and Utah at significantly lower rates. 3

In Australia the incidence of smoking is in decline, with figures from 2011 13 showing 16.1% of the population (over 18) to be daily smokers, a decline from 22.4% in 2001. Young adults are the most likely age group to smoke, with a marked decline in smoking rates with increasing age. The prevalence of smoking is strongly associated with socioeconomic disadvantage low earners , with over double the rate in the most disadvantaged quintile of the population as compared to the least. 4

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per adult per year 1 Serbia 2,869 2 Bulgaria 2,822 3 Greece 2,795 4 Russia 2,786 5 Moldova 2,479 6 Ukraine 2,401 7 Slovenia 2,369 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,278 9 Belarus 2,266 10 Montenegro 2,157 11 Lebanon 2,138 12 Czech Republic 2,125 13 South Korea 1,958 14 Republic of Macedonia 1,934 15 Kazakhstan 1,934 16 Azerbaijan 1,877 17 Japan 1,841 18 Kuwait 1,812 19 Spain 1,757 20 Switzerland 1,722 21 China 1,711 22 Austria 1,650 23 Tunisia 1,628 24 Croatia 1,621 25 Armenia 1,620 26 Cyprus 1,620 27 Poland 1,586 28 Estonia 1,523 29 Hungary 1,518 30 Italy 1,475 31 Belgium 1,455 32 Denmark 1,413 33 Romania 1,404 34 Slovakia 1,403 35 Turkey 1,399 36 Malta 1,378 37 Jordan 1,372 38 Cuba 1,261 39 Albania 1,116 40 Portugal 1,114 41 Trinidad and Tobago 1,106 42 Egypt 1,104 43 Indonesia 1,085 44 Tajikistan 1,046 45 Germany 1,045 46 Argentina 1,042 47 Georgia 1,039 48 Monaco 1,038 49 Israel 1,037 50 Australia 1,034 51 United States 1,028 52 Syria 1,013 53 Ireland 1,006 54 Vietnam 1,001 55 Kyrgyzstan 942 56 Luxembourg 928 57 Iraq 864 58 Chile 860 59 France 854 60 Oman 852 61 Philippines 838 62 Libya 818 63 Canada 809 64 Saudi Arabia 809 65 Lithuania 804 66 Netherlands 801 67 Mauritius 787 68 Latvia 785 69 Andorra 784 70 Algeria 775 71 Uruguay 770 72 Brunei 751 73 United Kingdom 750 74 Sweden 715 75 Finland 671 76 Papua New Guinea 670 77 Bahrain 661 78 Iran 657 79 North Korea 650 80 Nauru 626 81 Paraguay 619 82 United Arab Emirates 583 83 Comoros 583 84 New Zealand 579 85 Seychelles 565 86 Thailand 560 87 Mongolia 555 88 Singapore 547 89 Malaysia 539 90 Namibia 534 91 Norway 534 92 Fiji 530 93 Costa Rica 529 94 Brazil 504 95 Gabon 501 96 Morocco 500 97 Venezuela 496 98 Iceland 477 99 Pakistan 468 100 South Africa 459 101 Cambodia 452 102 Uzbekistan 449 103 Laos 435 104 Nepal 420 105 Angola 414 106 Colombia 412 107 Yemen 402 108 Senegal 398 109 Equatorial Guinea 391 110 Nicaragua 377 111 Antigua and Barbuda 375 112 Mexico 371 113 Belize 367 114 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 351 115 Barbados 344 116 Cape Verde 339 117 Dominica 339 118 Botswana 336 119 Djibouti 309 120 Togo 307 121 Swaziland 303 122 The Bahamas 288 123 Saint Kitts and Nevis 287 124 Jamaica 283 125 Qatar 281 126 Madagascar 260 127 Saint Lucia 249 128 Guatemala 235 129 Dominican Republic 234 130 Grenada 229 131 Ecuador 227 132 Honduras 217 133 El Salvador 209 134 Mozambique 200 135 Panama 197 136 Sri Lanka 195 137 Myanmar 189 138 Zimbabwe 189 139 Bolivia 179 140 Sierra Leone 177 141 Maldives 170 142 Bangladesh 154 143 Ivory Coast 148 144 Kenya 144 145 Burundi 137 146 Peru 137 147 Turkmenistan 135 148 Tanzania 132 149 Mali 127 150 Bhutan 120 151 Nigeria 116 152 Liberia 113 153 Burkina Faso 109 154 Democratic Republic of the Congo 105 155 Central African Republic 102 156 Haiti 100 157 Guinea Bissau 97 158 India 96 159 Rwanda 94 160 Cameroon 93 161 Chad 86 162 Mauritania 86 163 Gambia 85 164 Sudan 75 165 Eritrea 74 166 Zambia 74 167 Benin 71 168 S o Tom and Pr ncipe 69 169 Somalia 67 170 Lesotho 62 171 Afghanistan 61 172 Suriname 57 173 Niger 52 174 Guyana 49 175 Malawi 48 176 Tonga 48 177 Ghana 44 178 Vanuatu 43 179 Ethiopia 42 180 Samoa 34 181 Tuvalu 29 182 Uganda 24 183 Kiribati 22 184 Solomon Islands 18 185 Guinea 9 References edit

  • ERC. (2007). World Cigarettes 1 The 2007 Report. ERC Statistics Intl PIc. Population data is from Central Intelligence Agency. (2007). The World Factbook 2007. Washington Government Printing Office.