It’s been more than a decade since you’ve been able to smoke in a Columbia bar or restaurant.

But, well, times have changed, and so has smoking.

With the popularity of electronic cigarettes rising exponentially, Columbia leaders plan to take a new look at the city’s public smoking laws and consider whether to add these nontraditional smoking devices to the city’s workplace smoking ban. “We’ve got to modernize” Columbia’s smoking laws, said City Councilman Howard Duvall [...]