--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Los Angeles Extends Smoking Ban to E-Cigs  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Mar 5, 2014 10:25 AM CUT  Cast member Andrew Dice Clay smokes an e-cigarette as he arrives with Valerie Vasquez for the premiere of the film "Blue Jasmine," at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, California July 24, 2013. Cast member Andrew Dice Clay smokes an e-cigarette as he arrives with Valerie Vasquez for the premiere of the film "Blue Jasmine," at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, California July 24, 2013.Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Mar 5, 2014 10:25 AM CUT Los Angeles has [become](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/l-a-poised-to-limit-1-5-billion-e-cigarette-industry.html "undefined") 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 "undefined") 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. \[[Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/l-a-poised-to-limit-1-5-billion-e-cigarette-industry.html "undefined")\] ```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"}}]}] ```