Goose Creek council adopts updated smoking rule to include vaping, advances zoning fixes and approves event-center contract

The Goose Creek City Council on Tuesday adopted a revised smoking ordinance that explicitly covers vaping and advanced a set of zoning-code amendments on their first reading while approving several contracts and appointments, city officials said.

The smoking ordinance, a second and final reading, was approved by the council after Mayor Gregory S. Abid said the city’s older rule “did not consider vaping because vaping wasn't a thing when they passed the smoking ordinance back then,” and the update adds vaping to the local definition of smoking.

The changes matter to public-health and business operators in Goose Creek because the revised definition extends the ordinance’s reach to electronic smoking devices and aligns local enforcement language with current products on the market.

Council members also held the introduction and first reading of broad…