Spike Babaian, an owner of VapeNY, an e-cigarette store in Manhattan and Queens, said that equating regular and electronic cigarettes was silly. “We don’t ban water because it looks like vodka,” she said. Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr. of Queens demurred. “I’m watching puffs of vapor go up in this room — it is confusing, and I smell it.” He said he had not decided how to vote.