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Ordinance to Create Section 9.36 of the West Allis Revised Municipal Code Relating to Electronic Smoking Device Sales.
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. Section 9.36 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City of West Allis is hereby created to read as follows:
9.36 ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE SALES.
(1) Findings. The Common Council of the City of West Allis finds that:
(a) Electronic smoking devices are battery operated devices designed to deliver nicotine, flavor, and/or other substances through a vapor inhaled by the user; and
(b) The use of electronic smoking devices has increased significantly in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that:
1. Between 2011 and 2015, e-cigarette use rose from 1.5 percent to 16.0 percent among high school students and from 0.6 percent to 5.3 percent among middle school students;
2. In 2013-14, 81 percent of current youth e-cigarette users cited the availability of appealing flavors as the primary reason for use;
3. In 2015, more than three (3) million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes, and e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco products among youth;
4. 9.3 percent of youth who have used electronic smoking devices have never smoked conventional cigarettes;
5. Between 2010 and 2011, rates of both awareness and use of unregulated electronic smoking devices by adults also increased significantly; and
(c) Some cartridges used by electronic smoking devices can be re-filled with liquid nicotine solution, creating the potential for exposure to dangerous concentrations of nicotine. As a result:
1. Poisonings from electronic smoking devices have increased dramatically in the past five (5) years from once a month in September 2010 to 215 a month in February 2014.
2. Analysis of reports of poisonings from electronic smoking devices finds that calls reporting exposure to electronic smoking devices are much m...
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