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Watsonville city leaders ban e-cigarettes in public places.

you how police in watsonville are helping out. a unanimous decision just made by watsonville city council to ban the use of e- cigarettes in public spaces — makes it the third city on the central coast to implement the rule. news channel 5’s monica jacquez has more on what the new law means. :39-:45:57-1:021:06-1:11 *trt:outcue::*(pkg)jenny 39-45 daniel 57-1:02me 1:06-1:11 an e-cigarette is a battery powered vaporizer… which for some gives the same high as tobacco…but produces a mist rather than actual cigarette smoke. but some community leaders in watsonville say that doesn’t matter — e- cigarettes still pose the same health dangers.”it still contains as many chemicals as regular cigarettes, it’s still tobacco.”jenny t. sarmiento’s main job is to focus on local kids and their health… whether it be food, their physical safety, or in this case what they breathe. she brought the idea of creating rules and regulations for e- cigarettes to the city. and it’s not just second hand smoke she is trying to prevent kids from catching…”the tobacco industry is promoting e-cigarettes to young people because that’s the next population they want to start picking up that habit.”on tuesday watsonville city leaders voted unanimously to ban the use of e-cigarettes in public spaces. but they are still allowed to be sold in stores. correct?? “you could technically go into the library and the city offices without any guidelines in place to utilize electronic cigarettes.” monica stand-up “no e-cigarettes, just like tobacco, aren’t allowed inside city hall, the public library, or public schools.””we wante the e-cigarettes to be able to fall under the same guidelines that we have established for tobacco use in our community.” in watsonville monica jacquez news channel 5. watsonville is the third city on the central coast to crack down on e-cigarettes. santa cruz and

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