E-cigarettes to be banned from Scotland hospital grounds

[Matheist]

BBC News - E-cigarettes to be banned from Scotland hospital grounds

Unbelievable! Where do you start picking apart the logic in this?

It's open for comments.

 

[EmbraSewerRat]

My Mum was taken quite ill a couple of months back so had to visit the main hospital in aberdeen. The main door was always under a cloud of fag smoke, the side door was also stinking of cheap smoke yet the smoking shed was mostly empty. At times walking thro' the main hall you could still smell the stench.
Nobody said a word about that, despite the signage that you can only smoke in the shed.....
The other hospital she is now in, again, right by the main door, patients and staff puffing away. Not a word said.

But I did meet 3, aye only 3!, vapers. So a pleasant few minutes discussing kit and blowing custard clouds.

So, the NHS boards can ban from their sites what they want, but most people, going by the amount of smokers still puffing away near the main doors, ignore the bans.

 

[bishop]

Every time I see a 'no electronic cigarettes' sign I chuckle to myself and vape away in stealth mode.

I do not own any 'Electronic Cigarettes'

Until they add the term 'Advanced Personal Vaporiser' to their SMOKE FREE (?) policies I'll carry on vaping.

 

[Chegs]

The no electronic cigarette additions to signage are an invitation to me to blow a cloud of vapour, if challenged I'll ask if they also ban kettles.

 

[bishop]

The no electronic cigarette additions to signage are an invitation to me to blow a cloud of vapour, if challenged I'll ask if they also ban kettles.

Do they wear gas masks when it's foggy out?

 

[steffijade]

BBC News - E-cigarettes to be banned from Scotland hospital grounds

Unbelievable! Where do you start picking apart the logic in this?

It's open for comments.

The article states that vaping devices are unregulated, when in fact they're covered by several regulations relating to consumer goods.

I've put in yet another complaint to the BBC, requesting the offending phrase be removed as it breaches the BBC's own editorial guidelines relating to accuracy.

If anyone else wants to put in a complaint, the place to do it is here : BBC - Complaints - Complain Online

The more of us that complain when these lies are published and the more articles are complained about for inaccuracy, the more the BBC will have to tread carefully to avoid being censured.

The BBC charter is up for renewal in 2016. It doesn't hurt to remind them of this in communications to them and suggest that perhaps they should be acting within their own guidelines if they want that charter to be renewed.

 

[oldhippydude]

The good part of the piece is that it shows the ant smoking group Ash and the pro smoking group Forest singing from the same hymn sheet.Who would have thought.
I have bookmarked the complaints but personally be looking for a worse piece of journalism to use it.
Thanks for the link.

 

[oldhippydude]

+1 to what @EmbraSewerRat says.I have spent too much time outside that door in the last couple of years and do not see that changing.
Borders General is a different story over the past year it seems they have managed to push the smokers to the back gates, Usualy just inside hospital property but quite a way for a sick vaper or smoker to go.

 

[schlinky]

You know I'm normally all over this kind of thing but I'm not really seeing an issue here, they're simply reporting what the idiots of NHS scotland are doing and offered a counterpoint to the decision.

I've got more of an issue with the NHS than the BBC on this one. When are we gonna get some freaking studies done to shut these fools up?

 

[alwayslit]

Every time I see a 'no electronic cigarettes' sign I chuckle to myself and vape away in stealth mode.

I do not own any 'Electronic Cigarettes'

Until they add the term 'Advanced Personal Vaporiser' to their SMOKE FREE (?) policies I'll carry on vaping.

Good one!!