The governor of Kentucky has recently signed a bill into law banning what he described as “potentially deadly” devices that vaporize whiskey so that people can inhale the intoxicating fumes. The law, which will take effect in July, bans the sale, purchase or use of alcohol vaporizers in Kentucky where whiskey makers produce and sell more than $1 billion of bourbon a year.
Kentucky joins more than 20 other states that have instituted similar bans, said Sherry Green, executive director of the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws. Tennessee, home to Jack Daniel’s whiskey, and California, the nation’s leading wine producer, are among the other states that have prohibitions. Green said some state legislatures instituted the bans after realizing that their laws against underage “drinking” didn’t necessarily address “inhaling” alcohol.
