From Vaping 360:

That provision of the rule was probably changed because it received a lot of negative attention, including in a Detroit News op-ed by Jesse Kelley and Carrie Wade of the Washington think tank R Street Institute. Criminalizing possession of a smoke-free nicotine product when cigarettes are available in every corner store is bizarre, but no more bizarre than a health department creating rules that function as criminal statutes.

 

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