A 2013 amendment to New York City’s indoor smoking ban to bar e-cigarette use, or “vaping,” does not violate the single-subject rule contained within the state Constitution, a Manhattan judge concluded in a suit filed by smokers’ advocates against the city.
New York Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment argued that Local Law 152, which added e-cigarettes to the city’s ban on smoking in bars, restaurants, government buildings and other public places, violated Article III §15 in the state Constitution because smoking and e-cigarette use are two different subjects.
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