N.J. puts limits on sale of electronic cigarettes

TRENTON -- New Jersey has enacted restrictions on the sale and use of electronic cigarettes.
Gov. Jon Corzine on Monday signed into law legislation that prohibits the use of electronic smoking devices in workplaces and other indoor public places and prohibits their sale to minors.Electronic cigarettes look like the real thing but don't contain tobacco. Instead, they employ a metal tube with a battery that heats up a liquid nicotine solution. Users inhale and exhale the resulting water vapor.
The bill's sponsor, Assemblywoman Nancy Munoz, a Republican from Summit, said the restrictions are a matter of erring on the side of caution because the health risks associated with e-cigarettes have not been fully determined.

In France the division "cigarettes" policemen is created.

However, in France until recently not too actively struggled with smoking cigarettes in public places. For example, the interdiction on cigarettes in the French bars and restaurants, theoretically, operates with 1991, however in practice all turns out exactly on the contrary: nobody forbids to allocate for smoking cigarettes special premises outside of a hall of restaurant, as is everywhere. Since January of the next year all will change: smoking cigarettes in institutions of a public catering.As an interdiction on smoking cigarettes in other public places will come into force in France since February, 1st. Infringers are threatened with the penalty at rate of 68 euro. By the right to check how this interdiction is carried out, are allocated not only the French policemen and gendarmerie, but also transport police and the whole army of inspectors. And still the French government hopes, that the interdiction will be observed not because of strengthening police measures, and owing to moral pressure of a society upon smokers.