At Aurelio’s Pizza in Mokena, New Lenox and Frankfort, owner Joe Pascale allows customers to light up and puff away – provided they’re using electronic cigarettes. For a time, Pascale was selling the devices, which contain nicotine and resemble a real cigarette but expel only water vapor.

Although those patrons are few, he says, it’s an alternative to please smokers, including those on his busy staff as well as non-smokers.

“We’ve had people get (mad), and we say, ‘That’s an electronic cigarette,’ and they say, ‘OK,’” Pascale said.

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