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VAPING

E-CIG DEBATE
RAGES IN N.J.

SUNDAY 05.29.16

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YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

Holiday greetings
from Asbury Park
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John Stover is shown outside his Ye Olde Vape Shoppe on South Main Street in Allentown Thursday. A bill is making its way
through the Legislature that would ban the sale of flavored liquids for e-cigarettes.

Usher in Memorial Day with fireworks on the beach tonight

State could be the first to ban e-cigarette flavors;

ex-smokers say they helped them quit cigarettes
MIKE DAVIS @BYMIKEDAVIS

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AMERICAN VAPING ASSOCIATION

Opponents of a bill that would ban the sale of flavored vape

liquids protest outside the Statehouse in Trenton on May 16.

ALLENTOWN - Peggy Stover credits vaping with

saving her husbands life.
John smoked for 32 years, developing a nicotine addiction that couldnt be satisfied by any gum, patch,
throat lozenge or the hypnotist he hired to talk him out
of it.
That ended three years ago, with Johns first puff
of a vaporizer, an e-cigarette that replaces the tobacco-infused smoke with water vapor. It not only gave
him nicotine and the familiar hand-to-mouth motions
of cigarettes, but a sweet flavor that she says made
him quit cigarettes for good.
If he was still smoking, Im not sure he would
make it to our childrens weddings, said Stover, owner of Ye Olde Vape Shoppe. But he didnt just stop because of the nicotine. He stopped by using flavors.
But those flavors, the bottled ones that line the
walls of the Stovers store, would be considered contraband under a new bill making its way through the
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If you walk into a liquor store, the whole wall of

vodka has every single flavor you could imagine. You
can get bubblegum, watermelon, cherry ... But that
doesnt appeal to kids. If you cant get alcohol until
youre 21, why do they make it flavored? Thats legal.
Yes, were adults, but we still like flavors.

PEGGY STOVER, OWNER OF YE OLDE VAPE SHOPPE

22%

70%

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$4.1B

The percentage
of recent former
cigarette smokers
currently using
e-cigarettes or
vapor products.

Percentage of
tobacco-using
middle and high
school students
who are using a
flavored product.

Total number
of vapor shops
throughout New
Jersey. There are
8,500 total vape
shops in the U.S.

The total number

of middle school
and high school
students who use
e-cigarettes or
vapor products.

Number of adults
in the United
States who use
e-cigarettes or
vapor products on
a regular basis.

Expected vapor
product sales in
2016. That number is expected to
escalate to $10
billion by 2018.

Sources: CDC, Wells Fargo, American Vaping Association

Feeling
crafty?

Love a
parade?

Be sure to stop by the

Seaport Craft Festival in
Highlands.

Take your pick from the

dozens of Memorial Day
parades around the Shore.

The Monkees are back!

Well, two of them Peter Tork (left) and Mickey Dolenz (right)
will be performing live at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank
tonight. But Mike Nesmith (center) is on their new album.

St. John Vianney senior Kristen Politz won every

postseason all-around gymnastics competition she
entered in her senior season.
Join Politz and Giants quarterback Eli Manning on
June 13 at the Jersey Shore Sports Awards. Student-athletes being honored and others wishing
to attend must RSVP for their tickets by June 8.
For more information, visit
on.app.com/sportsawardstickets.

Bustling beaches,
sun, kicking cow
start off summer
ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN

The start of the Memorial Day weekend on Saturday

felt more like the start of a Fourth of July weekend in
any other year, with sunny skies and temperatures near
90 degrees along the Jersey Shore.
Traffic from Long Beach Island to Sandy Hook was
heavy and the crosswalks in our beach towns were bustling with scantily-clad people of all ages, shapes and
sizes, making their way to and from the beachfront.
Belmar has a great start to the Memorial Day weekend, Mayor Matt Doherty said. We had more visitors
today than we did last year at this time. We had $164,000
in (beach badge) sales today compared to $118,000 last
year on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.
Seaside Heights Police Chief Tommy Boyd estimated there were 70,000 people on the boroughs beaches
on Saturday which is quite an increase in a town with
a full-time population of just under 3,000.
The town is packed, Boyd said. All the motels are
packed. Weve got people from all over the country,
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