Bills to limit marketing and sale of E-cigarettes advances in State Senate

Two bills that would limit the marketing and sale of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices are awaiting action in the Illinois Senate after clearing the committee. 

Senate Bill 2662, by Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Lake Forest, would prohibit the advertising, marketing, and promoting of vaping devices that could be mistaken as innocuous objects, like school supplies. In a news conference Thursday, sponsors specifically noted the measure was aimed at products designed to resemble items such as highlighters. 

Senate Bill 3098, sponsored by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel, D-Shorewood, would ban the sale of e-cigarettes through the internet to individuals under the age of 21.