Vaping ‘to be banned’ near playgrounds, hospitals and schools in UK

[Toby iVapour]

Vaping ‘to be banned’ near playgrounds, hospitals and schools in UK

Health secretary Wes Streeting is considering restricting the use of vapes outdoors in England with Chris Whitty, the country’s chief medical officer for England, said to also favour the move.

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The restrictions - leaked to the Times newspaper - are likely to be included in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which is due to be presented to parliament in the coming weeks.

Louise Ross, Chair of the New Nicotine Alliance, said on X: “The proposal to ban vaping on hospital grounds makes no sense. It is a glaringly obviously [sic] place where there is an opportunity to show people who smoke that there is a better alternative. This isn’t just about patients, it includes staff and visitors too.”

Health psychologist Sairah Salim-Sartoni said that while she can understand not allowing vapes in schools, banning them in hospital grounds contradicts the government’s own Swap to Stop campaign message.

She wrote on X: “Maybe schools and playgrounds but not hospitals. with swap to stop.. for us it is an advantage to tell patients they can’t smoke outside but they can be use [sic] the vape we’ve provided them… very mixed messaging if this goes through… based on evidence? Me thinks not.”

Banning vapes on hospital grounds would also ignore recent research showing that giving out free vapes in emergency hospital rooms helps smokers to quit.

 

[MrDJ]

Thats it Labour, waste more money the NHS has not got changing all the hard work that has been put into recommending vaping even though its been proved there is no second hand harm to bystanders.

 

[Richard Winter]

A classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.