IANAL but I think you're safe to bring it on board.

SEC. 534 from https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4/te... just seeks to classify E-cigs in the same class as traditional cigarettes. There's no prohibition on carrying them onboard, only usage.

Ecigs are incredibly annoying to me personally. The vapor is usually some sickly sweet cloud that gets everywhere and I usually smell like jolly rancher or worthers original after being near one. If someone is that addicted, there's gums and patches that should be sufficient.

There's over a hundred people sharing that space, and we need to be courteous to everyone else for the small amount of time we're crammed together.

E-cigarette smoking is prohibited, not the e-cigarettes themselves. That's a poorly worded summary of the change.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/302/...

SEC. 409

Adds e-cigarettes to Section 41706 of title 49 of the US Code and bans their use on planes (equivalent to the ban on the use of cigarettes).

> what are the nicotine addicted supposed to do?

Patches. Like many people I know used to use before vaping became A Thing.

The reason for the e-cig ban in checked baggage is due to the chance of combustion, as if it exploded in your carry-on, it can be extinguished.

It's similar to the Samsung Note ban not too long ago, even though no Samsung Notes ever exploded in-flight, they had known problems with the battery. Air travel is crazy about not taking chances, and many e-cigs have shady bargain-bin lithium batteries.

I don't understand all those bans on e-cigarettes that pop up. They're essentially harmless, as opposed to "analog ones". I get that some people don't like to see any kind of smoke in general, but actual smoking is a public health problem, and IMO society should be supportive of e-cigarettes as a quite decent solution to this problem.

As many have replied, taking it is apparently still legal, just not smoking it on board.

I also assumed it a total ban, and I wondered if the tobacco lobby had something to do with it: legend has it that the govt wanted to ban bringing lighters into the cabin after 9/11, but the tobacco lobby intervened. And guess what, nope they were not on the banned items list.

what did you do for the many years between total smoking ban on planes and the introduction of vape?

I wonder about this too. As a long-time vaper who actually quit smoking with them, this makes airline travel a nightmare. Do I mail my vape to my destination? Buy a new one on the way? Attempt to sneak it on with the horror that possibly opens up?

You could quite smoking...

An absolute nightmare! A hellish experience!

Gum?

>You already can't bring vapes in checked luggage, so what are the nicotine addicted supposed to do?

Put up with it or don't fly. The nicotine addicted don't have a right to nicotine.