Utah moves to tax e-cigarettes like regular smokes

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Utah moves to tax e-cigarettes like regular smokes

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/utah-moves-tax-e-cigarettes-regular-smokes-190332420.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/JQMD6tPuQZprSoSFkiLWhQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/990df3b9dd0565072b0f6a7067000d8a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, gives an interview in the background while a candy jar filled with cigarettes and candy sit on a podium following a news conference Wednesday, Rep. March 6, 20013, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Ray wants to make electronic cigarettes and dissolvable tobacco products taxable. The alternative cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution and create vapor that users inhale. Currently, anyone can buy them because they're not classified as tobacco products. Ray sponsored the bill, which would also bar anyone under the age of 19 from entering a smoke shop. (AP Photo/Michelle Price)" align="left" title="Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, gives an interview in the background while a candy jar filled with cigarettes and candy sit on a podium following a news conference Wednesday, Rep. March 6, 20013, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Ray wants to make electronic cigarettes and dissolvable tobacco products taxable. The alternative cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution and create vapor that users inhale. Currently, anyone can buy them because they're not classified as tobacco products. Ray sponsored the bill, which would also bar anyone under the age of 19 from entering a smoke shop. (AP Photo/Michelle Price)" border="0" /></a>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) â€" A proposal in the Utah Legislature that would tax electronic cigarettes at the same rate as regular cigarettes has put the state at the forefront of a national movement to regulate the increasingly popular devices.</p><br clear="all"/>

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