OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has asked the Legislature to regulate electronic cigarettes like other tobacco products with taxes and advertising restrictions.

In a Thursday morning news conference, Inslee announced survey results that showed teen use of electronic cigarettes — known as "vaping — is too high for him to accept. He said a 2014 survey of Washington students showed 8.5 percent of 8th-graders had tried e-cigarettes, with the number rising for higher grades. Nearly a quarter of the high school seniors surveyed said they had tried vaping, Inslee said. State poison control calls related to the fluid used to load e-cigarettes shot from two in 2010 to 182 in 2014.

At Inslee's request, legislators in the state House and Senate introduced bills in January to impose new taxes and requirements for e-cigarette sales. Neither bill has been scheduled for a committee hearing.

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