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E-cigarettes may be grounded Wild mares receiving
By JOAN LOWY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration on Wednesday proposed
banning the use of electronic
cigarettes on airline fl ights, saying
there is concern the smokeless cigarettes
may be harmful.
“Airline passengers have rights,
and this new rule would enhance
passenger comfort and reduce any
confusion surrounding the use
of electronic cigarettes in fl ight,”
Transportation Secretary Ray La-
Hood said in a statement.
The ban would clarify an existing
Transportation Department rule
prohibiting smoking cigarettes or
similar products on airline fl ights.
The proposal would apply to all
domestic airline fl ights, as well as
scheduled fl ights of U.S. and foreign
carriers to and from the U.S. The department
is also considering whether
to extend the ban to charter fl ights.
E-cigarettes, as they are popularly
called, are designed to deliver
nicotine or other substances to the
smoker in the form of a vapor. They
are powered by small lithium ionbatteries.
Industry offi cials say there
is no possible harm to the public
from their use.
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• Games & Events 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
(Booths, Food & Fun at Ollie Liner Center)
• Chuckwagon Lunch 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Ollie Liner Center)
• Entertainment 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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“Everybody knows that when you
are smoking on an airplane that’s
absolutely a no-no. But this is not
smoking. This is vaping,” said Ray
Story, CEO of the Tobacco Vapor
Electronic Cigarette Association.
The Transportation Department
is “asking for something that makes
zero sense because this product
emits nothing,” Story said. “I don’t
think the masses have been educated
enough to know this isn’t
smoking.”
The department said there is a lack
of scientifi c data and knowledge of
the ingredients in e-cigarettes. The
Air Force surgeon general issued
a memorandum last year warning
that one sample tested by the Food
and Drug Administration contained
diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical
used in antifreeze, and other samples
contained cancer-causing agents.
The surgeon general also cautioned
commanders that e-cigarette cartridges
are replaceable and could be
used to deliver substances other than
nicotine.
Several states have taken steps to
ban either the sale or use of electronic
cigarettes. Amtrak has banned the
use of electronic smoking devices on
trains and in any area where smoking
is prohibited. The U.S. Navy has
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banned electronic cigarettes below
decks in submarines.
The e-cigarette association, which
represents 25 manufacturers and
distributors, says on its website that
there are only fi ve ingredients in the
devices: nicotine, water, coriander,
citric acid and fragrant orchid element.
E-cigarettes have been marketed
as a way to address both the nicotine
addiction and the behavioral
aspects of smoking — the holding
of the cigarette, the puffi ng, seeing
the smoke come out and the hand
motion — without the thousands of
chemicals found in cigarettes.
Nearly 46 million Americans
smoke cigarettes. About 40 percent
try to quit each year, according to
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Unlike nicotine patches
or gums, e-smokes have operated in
a legal gray area.
First marketed overseas in 2002,
e-cigarettes didn’t become easily
available in the U.S. until late 2006.
The FDA lost a court case last year
after trying to treat e-cigarettes as
drug-delivery devices.
Online:
Transportation Department www.dot.gov
Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association:
http://www.tveca.com/contacts.php
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birth control injections
EDEN, Wyo. (AP) — The
mares received the equine
equivalent of the pill and the
stallions remained intact.
The dust has settled from a
government roundup of nearly
700 wild horses in southwest
Wyoming in which the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management
injected six dozen mares with a
fertility control drug before returning
them to the open range.
The roundup south of Eden,
a tiny town amid a sagebrush
sea that stretches to the Wind
River Range, marked the start
of a new federal policy that
puts more emphasis on fertility
control and less on horse
removal to manage the wild
horse population throughout the
West. The U.S. Bureau of Land
Management policy calls for
scaling back its removal of wild
horses from Western ranges
from 10,000 to 7,600 a year.
An initial plan to spay all
mares and geld all stallions
before releasing them to the
wild would have spelled doom
for the herd, according to wild
horse advocates who fought the
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Wyoming roundup.
Ranchers counter that the
number of wild horses in the
West, estimated at 38,500, is
more than 40 percent above the
BLM’s target of 26,600. They
worry that fertility control won’t
do enough to limit rangeland
damage.
“There’s only so much grass
produced and I have to control
my cow numbers,” said Gary
Zakotnik, a rancher in the Eden
area and member of the BLM’s
National Wild Horse and Burro
Advisory Board. “I don’t know
of any ranchers, or very few
ranchers, that are opposed to
horses. But they’re like anything.
Their population has to
be controlled.”
Horse activists have steadfastly
opposed government
roundups as cruel and sometimes
deadly.
The roundup began Aug. 21
and ended a week later.
Of the 699 horses corralled,
205 were returned to the range,
including 72 mares treated with
PZP. The rest are destined to be
adopted or sent to refuges.