Vaping Rules

[jennyjoan]

My cousin works in a small office - perhaps holding 5 women and their desks etc.

One girl continually vapes all day.

Is that legal?

[Ken4155]

It is not illegal and is down to the discretion of the employer.

[tiggerblue10]

As far as I'm aware it's illegal to smoke and vape inside a public building in the UK. Are you in the ROI, JJ?

[ToraToraTora]

Yes but I'd not put up with it, why they think we like to breath in their filth is beyond me.

[ToraToraTora]

...and before all the smokers/vapers go off on one, I don't care how harmless or not it is I don't want to smell it and breath it ok.

[Gromit]

A private office is not a public building.
There are no known health issues from passive vaping.

[ToraToraTora]

Gromit "There are no known health issues from passive vaping. " - There are no known health issue for lots of unpleasant annoying things, that does not mean they should be inflicted on the rest of us.

[tiggerblue10]

But it's still a building with other members of the public in it.

[Ken4155]

^
No it isn't, it's a workplace.

[gulliver1]

TTT Is that IDS on your avatar, with red white and blue Spikes growing out of his head ?.

[pimplyteen]

I would think it's up to the boss of that office what is and is not allowed. What I will say is that last week on a tv channel the NHS now say " Vaping saves lives"
I will also say that the anti - smokers of tobacco are never satisfied. There have been millions of people that have given up with the help of vapes and all public places have been a no go for the remaining smokers. But NO still they are not done complaining.

[jennyjoan]

Boss is a wimp

[pimplyteen]

I've worked with people sitting smacking their lips all day with pot noodles and bacon &egg doorsteps, chewing gum, sucking sweets. No one is perfect you just give and take. If she was smoking tobacco then ok, NO.

[tiggerblue10]

Ok, ok!

[roopower]

I was standing in a queue behind a woman who was vaping, it may not harm her but it did my asthma no good at all. I don't know why, probably the smell - perfumes, deodorants etc set me off. I wouldn't be able to work near somebody who was vaping.

[THECORBYLOON]

Smoking in the workplace is not allowed but vaping is not covered by the legislation so it is up to the boss.

https://www.gov.uk/smoking-at-work-the-law#:~:text=Penalty%20for%20smoking%20in%20the%20workplace&text=The%20law%20doesn't%20apply,be%20used%20on%20their%20premises.

[pimplyteen]

I'd rather have a vaper sitting next to me than Catherine Tate, asking me to guess how many puffs she had. :0)

[Buenchico]

For clarification of some of what has gone before . . .

Under both the Health Act 2006 (which applies only in England and Wales) and the The Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 smoking is illegal in any enclosed space that is "open to the public" and/or where "the premises are used as a place of work by more than one person (even if the persons who work there do so at different times, or only intermittently)".

"Smoking" is defined as "smoking tobacco or anything which contains tobacco, or smoking any other substance".

However neither of those Acts (nor the equivalent legislation in Scotland) applies to using products which aren't actually "lit".

So vaping isn't illegal anywhere except when separate legislation applies (as it does on UK railways).

However most shops, bars and restaurants (etc) place their own bans on vaping on their premises, as do many employers.

[237SJ]

"Is that legal?" It's legal but it's not acceptable. The boss needs to man up and put his/her foot down.

[THECORBYLOON]

'"Smoking" is defined as "smoking tobacco or anything which contains tobacco, or smoking any other substance".'

I would have thought that the actual act of smoking would have been defined so that vaping could possibly fall under the legislation.

[pimplyteen]

I will just put this forward to you.My indoor town centre bans vaping and so do many more, yes its a public space so ok. My town centre along with many others i've been to allow shops and stalls within those indoor centres to have active oil burning lamps (aroma burners) giving off cloudes of vape. No one complains that i know to.Vapes work the same.