Jeanette Wolfberg is reporting for The Columbia Paper Hudson 1st Ward Supervisor Sarah Sterling expressed the need for enforced legislation countywide to stop the sale of electronic cigarettes to under-age persons, during a recent meeting of the Columbia County Community Services Board. Juuls, a kind of nicotine vaporizers that are easy to use discretely and come in many flavors, are popular with teenagers. “They think they aren’t smoking. But they’re getting as much nicotine as in a cigarette," Sterling said. At the same meeting, Dan Almasi, county deputy director of Community Services, announced the start of a nicotine cessation group “for people invested in having a quit date.” Participants follow a program that includes quitting early on. Various services are available for those “considering whether to quit,” Wolfberg writes. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.