<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>resonanttoe</author><text>IANAL but I think you&amp;#x27;re safe to bring it on board.&lt;p&gt;SEC. 534 from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.congress.gov&amp;#x2F;bill&amp;#x2F;115th-congress&amp;#x2F;house-bill&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.congress.gov&amp;#x2F;bill&amp;#x2F;115th-congress&amp;#x2F;house-bill&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;te...&lt;/a&gt; just seeks to classify E-cigs in the same class as traditional cigarettes. There&amp;#x27;s no prohibition on carrying them onboard, only usage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giggles_giggles</author><text>I see one of the new regs is this:
&amp;gt;bans e-cigarettes from planes;&lt;p&gt;You already can&amp;#x27;t bring vapes in checked luggage, so what are the nicotine addicted supposed to do? Switch to cigarettes at their destination, since they can&amp;#x27;t take their vapes along with them? This might be trivial to some folks, but I know people for whom this will be an absolute nightmare.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is easy for the non-addicted to see as a non-issue or a minor change, but for those who have nicotine habits, this makes airplanes that much more of a hellish experience than they already are. Worse, it actively punishes the folks trying to get away from smoking analog cigarettes, because it makes it nigh impossible for them to take their substitute when they travel..</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines</title><url>https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/president-trump-just-signed-a-law-that-radically-changes-life-for-airline-passengers-flight-attendants-airlines-almost-nobody-even-noticed.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>E-cigarette smoking is prohibited, not the e-cigarettes themselves. That&amp;#x27;s a poorly worded summary of the change.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.congress.gov&amp;#x2F;bill&amp;#x2F;115th-congress&amp;#x2F;house-bill&amp;#x2F;302&amp;#x2F;text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.congress.gov&amp;#x2F;bill&amp;#x2F;115th-congress&amp;#x2F;house-bill&amp;#x2F;302&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;SEC. 409&lt;p&gt;Adds e-cigarettes to Section 41706 of title 49 of the US Code and bans their use on planes (equivalent to the ban on the use of cigarettes).</text><parent_chain><item><author>giggles_giggles</author><text>I see one of the new regs is this:
&amp;gt;bans e-cigarettes from planes;&lt;p&gt;You already can&amp;#x27;t bring vapes in checked luggage, so what are the nicotine addicted supposed to do? Switch to cigarettes at their destination, since they can&amp;#x27;t take their vapes along with them? This might be trivial to some folks, but I know people for whom this will be an absolute nightmare.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is easy for the non-addicted to see as a non-issue or a minor change, but for those who have nicotine habits, this makes airplanes that much more of a hellish experience than they already are. Worse, it actively punishes the folks trying to get away from smoking analog cigarettes, because it makes it nigh impossible for them to take their substitute when they travel..</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines</title><url>https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/president-trump-just-signed-a-law-that-radically-changes-life-for-airline-passengers-flight-attendants-airlines-almost-nobody-even-noticed.html</url></story>