Secondhand Smoke: A Silent Threat Its not just smokers who are at risk from the chemicals in cigarettespeople who are exposed to secondhand smoke are also affected
Chronic lung injury and increased scarring of the airways
There are no Virginia residency requirements for retail purchases
Read and follow all package warnings and comply with applicable local, state, and federal laws.
There's been diminutive evidence of enforcement or prosecution of offenders, and many tobacco control actors have limited knowledge about e-cigarettes, a further complication to enforcement the ban
Consequently, great lobbying pressure was exerted by the pro-tobacco forces on members of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, which in April held hearings on various bills to amend the 1965 Cigarette Act, and on May 28th the committee, by a vote of twenty-two to five, reported out a bill, known as the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Bill, that would have extended the premption of any state or federal-agency intervention against cigarette advertising for six yearsa period longer by one-third than the moratorium built into the 1965 act
