The proposed ordinance targets vape shops near schools

Even more alarming, 91 percent of teens who use e-cigarettes report getting positive feedback about them. The fear is, after years of declining adolescent tobacco smoking rates, increasing use of e-cigarettes among teens could lead to a "renormalization" of smoking behavior among teens. "Because more than 40 percent of e-cigarette users had never smoked a traditional cigarette we suspect that e-cigarettes are different. She said that although the study does not explicitly address this, there are a couple of pathways that would potentially lead e-cigarette users to cigarettes. "We don't want to see smoking normalized again," said Delaware State Representative Debra Heffernan, a prime sponsor of a passed bill that bans smoking e-cigarettes indoors.