E-cigarettes are designed to be a healthier alternative to regular cigarettes, avoiding the toxins and carcinogens of the latter, as well as eliminating second-hand smoke.
Nevertheless, more universities are pushing to ban e-cigarettes, according to the Kansas City Star:
WASHINGTON — While the federal government decides how to regulate electronic cigarettes, many university officials across the country are moving ahead with their own rules about e-cigs on campus.
Several universities have already prohibited e-cigs or are set to ban them in upcoming years.
At Idaho State University, Missouri State University and the University of Texas at Austin, for example, officials have updated their smoking policies to ban e-cigs. The products soon will be prohibited at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and all campuses in the University of California system…
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