--- title: Los Angeles Bans E-Cigarettes description: "Vaping" is now verboten in restaurants, bars and farmers markets canonical: https://time.com/12602/los-angeles-extends-smoking-ban-to-e-cigs/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-05T10:25:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:34:48.263Z article:section: Health og:title: Los Angeles Bans E-Cigarettes og:description: "Vaping" is now verboten in restaurants, bars and farmers markets og:url: https://time.com/12602/los-angeles-extends-smoking-ban-to-e-cigs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12010a05bf325ed3/698683ebd0b6f2384b303150/174379057.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4644 og:image:height: 2612 og:image:alt: US-ENTERTAINMENT-PREMIERE-BLUE JASMINE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Los Angeles Bans E-Cigarettes twitter:description: "Vaping" is now verboten in restaurants, bars and farmers markets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12010a05bf325ed3/698683ebd0b6f2384b303150/174379057.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Los Angeles Extends Smoking Ban to E-Cigs > Sponsored content. 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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Mar 5, 2014 10:25 AM UTC Los Angeles has [become](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/l-a-poised-to-limit-1-5-billion-e-cigarette-industry.html) the the third major U.S. city, after New York and Chicago, to ban e-cigarettes from public spaces. Bloomberg [reports](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/l-a-poised-to-limit-1-5-billion-e-cigarette-industry.html) that LA’s city council unanimously voted to extend existing smoking bans to the odorless vapors of e-cigarettes. The “vaping” ban will encompass bars, restaurants, parks and, of course, farmers markets. City council members feared that e-cigarettes could lure non-smokers into a habit dangerously akin to smoking. “I will not support anything that might attract one new smoker,” said City Council President Herb Wesson. E-cigarette makers contend that the vast majority of their customers are smokers trying to quit, and that it’s a “gateway” out of an addictive habit rather than into one. Either way, that gate has now closed on Angelenos looking to light up in public. \[[Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/l-a-poised-to-limit-1-5-billion-e-cigarette-industry.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12602/los-angeles-extends-smoking-ban-to-e-cigs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12602/los-angeles-extends-smoking-ban-to-e-cigs/"},"headline":"Los Angeles Extends Smoking Ban to E-Cigs","datePublished":"2014-03-05T10:25:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:34:48.263Z","description":"\"Vaping\" is now verboten in restaurants, bars and farmers markets","url":"https://time.com/12602/los-angeles-extends-smoking-ban-to-e-cigs/","keywords":["tobacco","Smoking","Cigarettes","E-Cigarettes","los angeles","Nicotine","Vaping"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12010a05bf325ed3/698683ebd0b6f2384b303150/174379057.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12010a05bf325ed3/698683ebd0b6f2384b303150/174379057.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ENTERTAINMENT-PREMIERE-BLUE JASMINE","caption":"US-ENTERTAINMENT-PREMIERE-BLUE JASMINE","creditText":"Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tobacco/","name":"tobacco"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/12602/los-angeles-extends-smoking-ban-to-e-cigs/","name":"Los Angeles Extends Smoking Ban to E-Cigs"}}]}] ```