Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Governor Cuomo's warning on Monday requiring vaping stores to carry health warnings may only be the beginning according to one vaping organization leader.
"Our advice, our guidance is quite simple: Don't do it," Cuomo said of vaping. "Don't do it because we do not know that it is safe. This is a frightening public health phenomenon," the Democrat told reporters at a Manhattan press conference Monday. "Common sense says if you don't know what you are smoking, don't smoke it."
As for Cuomo's warning, "He'll use that to ban flavors only in nicotine products. They have no control or no plan to control these illicit products," claims Conley. "Do not be surprised if there is a predetermined conclusion, which is Governor Cuomo comes out with an emergency order banning all flavored products. It would not surprise me to see that in the next three to five weeks."
Dr. Andrew Hyland of Roswell Park Comprehensive Care Center calls Cuomo's move unprecedented. "Here's a leader giving this broad public health guidance so this certainly sets a tremendous precedent and the leadership in terms of creativity going forward," says Hyland.
Hyland says vaping is safer than cigarettes but not safe. "These quick acting respiratory events putting otherwise young people in the hospital, this is a new ballgame," says Hyland.
