Smoking of any kind has been banned from all North Carolina jails and prisons since March of 2010. Since then, according to Eddie Caldwell Director of the North Carolina Sherriff’s association, “jail staff have to contend with inmates suffering from nicotine withdrawal.” Which can potentially cause unneeded conflict between jail staff and inmates. Some county jails have turned to electronic cigarettes as the solution, and as Caldwell further states “There are a number of jails across the state that allow their inmates to purchase these e-cigarettes.” Much of the reasoning behind this decision according to Caldwell is officer safety, and that “traditional cigarettes create a risk of fire, the risk of secondhand smoke and other things like that,” Caldwell said, “that at least as far as I’ve heard are not a problem with e-cigarettes.”

The report concludes by calling on the Food and Drug Administration to remove candy-flavored NRT products from the market and to regulate the marketing of NRT so that it does not appeal to or target youths.

Like any regulation, there needs to be a way to fund it and this is where big brother comes in. Granted with a soon to be 3 billion dollar industry, many politicians want to get their greedy hands on it for taxation purposes, but will cripple the industry and many of the small business owners that own these vape shops (even the good ones). Although I am not opposed to taxation, 49% is a bit excessive considering it’ll be much more expensive to use E-Cigs vs regular cigarettes at that point (especially with how much E-Juice I go through a day). As of late there have and not being able to pay people back due to the rapid growth of the E-Cig industry.

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