Nicotine

Up in smoke: the rules of vaping inside pubs

30-Jun-2017 By Georgina Townshend

The smoking ban came into effect in 2007 but where does that leave the many people who now want to vape in your premises rather than smoke cigarettes?

Legal advice

Vaping: what is the law for pubs?

16-Jun-2016 By Poppleston Allen

E-cigarettes are another example of operators taking charge and banning otherwise perfectly legal habits.

Legal

Advice on 'legal highs' in your pub

07-Mar-2016 By Poppleston Allen

This week's legal Q&A focuses on so-called 'legal highs' and what to do if you discover them in your pub.

E-cigarette debate

MP: Welsh ban on e-cigarettes indoors ‘makes no sense’

21-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

A long-serving Member of Parliament has slammed the Welsh government’s stance on e-cigarettes, following Swansea Council’s inclusion of them in a consultation on banning smoking in outdoor public spaces, which could impact pub gardens.

E-cigarette ban would enforce "overly proscriptive" additional no-smoking signs

11-Sep-2015 By Oli Gross

Legislation preventing e-cigarette smoking in Welsh pubs would be over proscriptive, unnecessary, costly and burdensome, the British Beer and Pub Association has claimed.

Pubs reminded to prepare for new tobacco display laws

09-Jan-2015 By Naomi Larsson

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) is reminding pubs to prepare for the change in tobacco display laws.

WHO calls for ban on e-cigarettes indoors

27-Aug-2014 By John Harrington, M&C Report

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the use of e-cigarettes indoors should be prohibited.

E-cigarettes in pubs - to vape or not to vape

09-May-2014 By Phil Mellows

The explosion in the use of electronic cigarettes has handed pub operators a dilemma in terms of whether or not to allow ‘vaping’ indoors. The Publican's Morning Advertiser takes a look at the practice and analyses the latest tobacco trends

E-cigarette brand launches new product to counter vapour concerns

17-Mar-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

A Scottish electronic-cigarette maker has claimed to have addressed the growing number of vaping bans in pubs with a new product that doesn’t emit any visible vapour.

Pub operators urged to keep policies on e-cigarettes under review

17-Oct-2013 By Phil Mellows

Anti-smoking campaigners are urging pub operators to keep their policies on electronic cigarettes under review as controversy grows around the devices – which deliver nicotine without burning tobacco and produce vapour rather than smoke.

E-cigarettes: the politics of vaping

01-Jul-2013 By Phil Mellows

For some time now I’ve been stalking the subject of e-cigarettes, writes Phil Mellows. Vaping, as they call it, since users inhale nicotine-laced vapour rather than smoke, may not be drinking but it does offer an intriguing insight into society’s attitude...

E-cigarettes to be classified as 'medicines' to help smokers quit

13-Jun-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

E-cigarettes are to be reclassified as “medicines” in a move to make them safer and more effective in reducing the harm caused by smoking.

JD Wetherspoon defends e-cigarette ban in pubs

07-Jun-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has defended its position after it emerged that the use of e-cigarettes had been banned inside all of its pubs.

Government sticks to vending machine ban

09-Mar-2011 By Gurjit Degun

The Government has stuck to plans to ban cigarette vending machines in England from 1 October. The Department of Health (DoH) today published...

Cig vending machines to survive?

15-Jul-2010 By James Wilmore

The planned ban on cigarette vending machines in pubs could be scrapped after the government signalled it is re-considering the law. Vending...