The questions come up often: What are electronic cigarettes? What actually happens when someone uses electronic cigarettes? Are they permitted under smoke-free air laws? Are they covered by FDA regulation of tobacco products?

The Public  Health Law & Policy Technical Assistance Legal Center has produced a fact sheet that addresses these questions about electronic cigarettes, and provides options for how electronic cigarettes may be regulated.

The fact sheet "Electronic Cigarettes: How They Are – and Could Be  – Regulated" is available for download as a pdf. The fact sheet also includes a graphic showing the construction of e-cigarettes.