***MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE*** WAGNER, CONAWAY ON BILL PACKAGE TO RESTRICT SALE, USE OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES Measures Would Prohibit Sale of E-Cigarettes to Minors; Prohibit E-Cigarette Use Indoors (TRENTON) - Assembly members Connie Wagner and Herb Conaway, M.D. today issued a multimedia package on a legislative package to limit the sale and use of electronic cigarettes in New Jersey. Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, look like ordinary cigarettes but do not contain tobacco.  They consist of a metal tube with a battery, which heats and vaporizes a nicotine solution contained in a cartridge.  Users then inhale the heated nicotine vapor through the tube.The legislative package (A-4227/A-4228) would include e-cigarettes as part of  the state ban on the sale of tobacco products to those under 19 years of age and would extend the New Jersey Smoke Free Air Act - which prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces - to include e-cigarettes.The multimedia package consists of a video press release on the bill, audio of same, and a transcript of comments from Wagner (D-Bergen) and Conaway (D-Burlington).The video can be accessed directly via our Web site - www.assemblydems.com - or by clicking here.The audio file is available upon request.A transcript of the legislators' comments is appended below:Assemblyman Herb Conaway, M.D. (D-Burlington), Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee Chair:"An e-cigarette is an electronic device, which vaporizes nicotine so that it can be inhaled by the user."Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (D-Bergen), Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee Vice-Chair:"E-cigarettes emit a certain vapor.  I don't know what vapors are being emitted and I want to make sure that we ensure the same protections from cigarette smoke as we do from the potentially harmful chemicals coming from the e-cigarettes."This legislation is to provide immediate protection for our children to make sure that they cannot purchase them."And I do want to add something.  This problem came to my attention through a local board of health, who did the investigative work, who went to an indoor mall and saw people purchasing this.  And it became the focus of the Paramus Board of Health, who brought it to my attention and that's why we're here today.  And I want to make sure that we do something quickly, so that we have protection."On the Net:http://www.youtube.com/user/njassemblydemshttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Trenton-NJ/New-Jersey-Assembly-Democrats/65894455504http://www.assemblydems.com/Subscription/SubscriptionSignIn.asphttp://twitter.com/njassemblydemshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/njassemblydemocrats/http://www.vimeo.com/njassemblydems