In another Back to the Future moment, ecig forces cynicaly telling LA it should wait for FDA to include ecigs in smokefree law

The e-cig/tobacco companies are trotting out the argument that the LA City Council does not need to include e-cigs in its clean indoor air law and instead wait for the FDA to regulate e-cigs.
 
This reminds me of how, back in the 1990s, while fighting federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration efforts to issue a smokefree workplace rule, the tobacco companies were telling local city councils that they didn't need to pass clean indoor air laws but rather wait for OSHA (which never did issue the rule).
 
The industry assertions that LA (and other cities and states) should wait for the FDA is even more cynical.  Leaving aside the Obama Administration FDA's flaccid performance in actually doing anything meaningful to regulate tobacco, as I pointed out last summer, the fact is that the FDA has no jurisdiction to regulate WHERE people use e-cigarettes. 
 
Big tobacco and their flacks know this.
 
The LA City Council should see past this (and the other) phony arguments and pass a strong law keeping indoor spaces free of e-cigarette pollution.