Smoking Ban Includes E-Cigarette? ??

[newbie99]

Does anyone knows if the no smoking law includes banning of E-Cigarettes in restaurants and supermarkets?

[SirOracle]

I think it is up to the proprietor to decide,but probably barred in restaurants and supermarkets by most owners.

[Maydup]

E-cigarettes are not banned under the law which prohibites smoking in public places, but many public places have banned them voluntarily.

[BlackadderV]

You are right, Maydup. It may not contravene the criminal law but it may well contravene bye-laws, which places can impose at will. Fascisism run riot.

[Canary42]

Maydup's right

[Buenchico]

The law states:
“smoking” refers to smoking tobacco or anything which contains tobacco, or smoking any other substance, and . . .
smoking includes being in possession of lit tobacco or of anything lit which contains tobacco, or being in possession of any other lit substance in a form in which it could be smoked
[Health Act 2006, Section 1]

eCigs aren't covered by the legislation but many pubs and restaurants have followed the lead taken by J D Wetherspoon in banning them and it's likely that most supermarkets would also ask people to desist from using them.

[newbie99]

Hi Posters, I am referring to uk law as this is a .co. uk website.

[Buenchico]

Everything above applies to the UK.

[Postdog]

I thought you could never smoke in supermarkets anyway. I don't recall my mum ever going round the co open smoking....

[Postdog]

Co op, ruddy autocorrect

[237SJ]

The law relates to cigarettes (see under E cigarettes) http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/smoking.htm but companies can choose to prohibit the use of e cigs

[BlackadderV]

You should have been around in the fifties. Butchers smoked whilst chopping up meat, teachers smoked in the classroom and doctors smoked in their surgeries. No one complained then.

[SirOracle]

And many of us are still alive and kicking Blackadder.

[237SJ]

"Butchers smoked whilst chopping up meat" It wasn`t so long ago you could see that in Hong Kong. If the ash got too long it just fell into the meat and got chopped up along with everything else.

[BlackadderV]

secondary nicotine inhalation.

Is that the new 'passive smoking'? Who dreamt up that phrase? I've heard it all now. Just as you thought the world couldn't get any barmier...

[237SJ]

I`m not sure about secondary nicotine inhalation. Is there nicotine in e cigs? There are probably various reasons why they are banned. They are prohibited on aircraft because if someone fires up an e cig, people sitting several rows away might think "Oh great, there`s someone smoking so I`m just going to find my lighter and smoke a cigarette"

[SirOracle]

Not banned on all airlines.

[BlackadderV]

You are not far wrong, 237. They are banned on our local buses on the grounds that others will reach for their fags and light up. Of course, that is not the real reason.