Philip Morris is launching a brand new electronic cigarette called IQOS VEEV Stock Photo Alamy San Francisco passes ban on e cigarette sales, a US first CNN San Francisco first city to ban sale of e cigarettes San Francisco's e cigarette sales ban is an unprecedented health experiment CNN San Francisco has outlawed smoking from almost every corner of civic life in ordinance after ordinance, including at bus stops, ball parks and even when waiting in line outside for a movie