Owners and operators of the e - cigarette Establishments say Their jobs and investments Will Be Lost , threatening Their livelihoods .

Bountiful • Before THEY Opened Vapor Dreams Earlier this year , Jen Littlefield and Lewie Lambros " triple checked " that electronic cigarette stores we're permitted to Their Location on 500 South .

Brent Gould , Who Opened Vapor R Us A Few blocks down the street , hefyd Asked os his shop mate zoning requirements document . In hub Cases , Bountiful city administrators manwl Business Licenses to the Enterprises.

What are electronic cigarettes ?

Electronic cigarettes , e - cigarettes Also known as , are battery - operated products Designed to Deliver nicotine , flavor and other chemicals . , They turn nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor inhaled by the user That lower .

Ond this week , the Owners of the Businesses , better mp mp Other e - cigarette Establishments two , we're Told in letters from City Attorney Russell Mahan That Their Licenses Would not what renewed for 2014. All four must cease operation Starting Jan . 1 .
The Reason Given Is that a change in state hand bars and retail tobacco business Established SPECIALTY -after July 1 , 2012 , from Being Within 600 feet of a residence of Within 1,000 feet of a school , library , park of Church , Among Other community facilities .

Owners and operators of the e - cigarette Establishments say Their jobs and investments Will Be Lost , threatening Their livelihoods . Ashley Tims , manager of Urban Vapor , Said Friday That People Will Be out of six gwaith os That store closes .
Gould Said he could lose Everything .
" If this goes Through , it 's Bankruptcy and four Employees get laid off , " he Said.

Despite the change in the hand , four e - cigarette Businesses That Opened -after July 1 , 2012 , we're yn y PROHIBITED Distances manwl Business Licenses for 2013. City Manager Gary Hill Said in a statement on Friday ysgrifenedig Bountiful That was unaware of the state restrictions at the time .

A review of e - cigarette business locations can conducted at the Request of the Davis County Health Department showed fod y of the four stores Business Licenses can not be renewed , he Said.

"We realize this sefyllfa ei what a hardship for the affected Owners , " Hill Said in the release .