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Interesting.

From a smoking cessation angle I am mot sure what the stance is in the UK
but in ROI these are not classed as a smoking cessation aid at all but as a
cigarette replacement. There are concerns that they actually increase
smoking as people who would have normally gone a few hours without any
nicotine e.g. in a car journey, on a train/plane are now using
e-cigarettes increasing the nicotine addiction behaviours.

Overall in the work place it's a management issue I feel...... be
interesting to see the actual risk assessment that indicates they are a
real and serious fire hazard though?


Carr


On 1 May 2013 11:12, Milne Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> *From new NICE Draft guidance:*
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> Advise staff who are unwilling, or unable, to stop smoking completely to
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> Enforce staff contracts relating to smoking on the secondary care estate
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> Also some discussion about e-cigarettes.****
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> http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=1&oq=banned+e-&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enGB473GB474&q=banned+e-cigarettes
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