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