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VOLUME 137

NUMBER 128

SINCE 1879

SUNDAY 05.29.16

Holiday greetings

from Asbury ParkUsher in Memorial Day with fireworks on the beach tonight

Feelingcrafty?Be sure to stop by theSeaport Craft Festival inHighlands.

Love aparade?Take your pick from thedozens of Memorial Dayparades around the Shore.

The Monkees are back!Well, two of them — Peter Tork (left) and Mickey Dolenz (right) —will be performing live at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Banktonight. But Mike Nesmith (center) is on their new album.

beacheditionYOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

All this and more inside! 2A

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BUSINESS 6AA

CLASSIFIED 1D

SUNDAY BEST 1E

LOCAL 3A

LOTTERIES 2A

OBITUARIES 14A

OPINION 4AA

SPORTS 1C

WEATHER 12C

St. John Vianney senior Kristen Politz won everypostseason all-around gymnastics competition sheentered in her senior season.

Join Politz and Giants quarterback Eli Manning onJune 13 at the Jersey Shore Sports Awards. Stu-dent-athletes being honored and others wishingto attend must RSVP for their tickets by June 8.For more information, visiton.app.com/sportsawardstickets.

First major event marking the25th anniversary of the

Persian Gulf War Monday. 1B

ALLENTOWN - Peggy Stover credits vaping withsaving her husband’s life.

John smoked for 32 years, developing a nicotine ad-diction that couldn’t be satisfied by any gum, patch,throat lozenge or the hypnotist he hired to talk him outof it.

That ended three years ago, with John’s first puffof a vaporizer, an e-cigarette that replaces the tobac-co-infused smoke with water vapor. It not only gavehim nicotine and the familiar hand-to-mouth motionsof cigarettes, but a sweet flavor that she says madehim quit cigarettes for good.

“If he was still smoking, I’m not sure he wouldmake it to our children’s weddings,” said Stover, own-er of Ye Olde Vape Shoppe. “But he didn’t just stop be-cause of the nicotine. He stopped by using flavors.”

But those flavors, the bottled ones that line thewalls of the Stovers’ store, would be considered con-traband under a new bill making its way through the

VAPING

E-CIG DEBATE

RAGES IN N.J.

THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

John Stover is shown outside his Ye Olde Vape Shoppe on South Main Street in Allentown Thursday. A bill is making its waythrough the Legislature that would ban the sale of flavored liquids for e-cigarettes.

State could be the first to ban e-cigarette flavors;ex-smokers say they helped them quit cigarettes

22%The percentageof recent formercigarette smokerscurrently usinge-cigarettes orvapor products.

70%Percentage oftobacco-usingmiddle and highschool studentswho are using aflavored product.

500Total numberof vapor shopsthroughout NewJersey. There are8,500 total vapeshops in the U.S.

3MThe total numberof middle schooland high schoolstudents who usee-cigarettes orvapor products.

9MNumber of adultsin the UnitedStates who usee-cigarettes orvapor products ona regular basis.

$4.1BExpected vaporproduct sales in2016. That num-ber is expected toescalate to $10billion by 2018.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AMERICAN VAPING ASSOCIATION

Opponents of a bill that would ban the sale of flavored vapeliquids protest outside the Statehouse in Trenton on May 16.

MIKE DAVIS @BYMIKEDAVIS

See VAPING, Page 8A

“If you walk into a liquor store, the whole wall of 

vodka has every single flavor you could imagine. You

can get bubblegum, watermelon, cherry ... But that

doesn’t appeal to kids. If you can’t get alcohol until

you’re 21, why do they make it flavored? That’s legal.

Yes, we’re adults, but we still like flavors.”

PEGGY STOVER, OWNER OF YE OLDE VAPE SHOPPE

Sources: CDC, Wells Fargo, American Vaping Association

The start of the Memorial Day weekend on Saturdayfelt more like the start of a Fourth of July weekend inany other year, with sunny skies and temperatures near90 degrees along the Jersey Shore.

Traffic from Long Beach Island to Sandy Hook washeavy and the crosswalks in our beach towns were bus-tling with scantily-clad people of all ages, shapes andsizes, making their way to and from the beachfront.

“Belmar has a great start to the Memorial Day week-end,” Mayor Matt Doherty said. “We had more visitorstoday than we did last year at this time. We had $164,000in (beach badge) sales today compared to $118,000 lastyear on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.”

Seaside Heights Police Chief Tommy Boyd estimat-ed there were 70,000 people on the borough’s beacheson Saturday — which is quite an increase in a town witha full-time population of just under 3,000.

“The town is packed,” Boyd said. “All the motels arepacked. … We’ve got people from all over the country,every type of plate is in my town — Mississippi, Cali-

Bustling beaches,sun, kicking cowstart off summerERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN

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