Just as smokers thought they had found a way around smoking bans, they find that their hopes for a ‘safer’ cigarette are being quickly eroded. Electronic Cigarette’s are currently under fire from several “smoke free” organizations, politicians who have their funds in tobacco products, worried consumers, and the gang officially known as the FDA.

In both America and Canada, e-cigs came under the governmental chopping block because they are not technically covered under any Tobacco or drug acts. On top of this, electronic cigarette’s have not yet been subjected to rigorous shake downs by the FDA or tax committee’s; putting them on the ‘bad side’ of those in control. This has thus caused the federal courts to decide the official fate of nico-vaping in the America and Canada. So far, they have not won their case do to improper use of powers, though they have not stopped attempting to ban e-cigarettes indefinitely.

Until then, many agencies, organizations and attorney general’s are doing everything they can to make life even more hellish for smokers and e-cig sellers. A few states have even managed to pass e-cigarette laws quietly, so that consumers have only a small window to prevent such bans, while other states are just doing what they can to threaten retailers from selling them.

Currently, Canada’s federal health agency has banned the importing of electronic cigarettes and has banned the sale of them until they have applied for clearance and approved by their FDA.

In America, e-cigs are in such a gray area that there isn’t a ton that most states can do. Though a few have managed to sneak in swift and silent laws that ban the sale of e-cigs, while others are just discouraging it. Here is the latest info for the states vs. e-smoking:

OREGON - Still legal for consumers to use them, but they are banned for being sold by retailers in Oregon

MINNESOTA - Has redefined their tobacco laws to include e-cigarettes as tobacco products

NEW HAMPSHIRE - Has banned the sale of e-cigarette’s to minors

ARIZONA - Has banned the sale of e-cigs to minors

CALIFORNIA - Has banned sale to minors, though they are still in Red Alert for attempting to amend the bill to ban electronic cigarette’s completely

MARYLAND - Has passed a law banning indoor usage of e-cigs and is attempting to completely ban them

NEW JERSEY - E-cigs have been added to the smoking ban and are illegal to use indoors in public places, but not illegal to purchase, sell or use otherwise

NEW YORK - Has two bills in the legislature and senate and are attempting to completely ban e-cigs, though at the moment the bills have been unsuccessful. Though the attorney general is doing everything possible to discourage the sales of electronic cigarettes

UTAH - Banned to sell to minors, banned for use in mental facilities and jails.