Seems like some of the Scottish Companies are banning electronic cigarettes, while other Scottish companies are happy to allow electronic cigarettes to be used within their hallowed halls and offices.
Writer Claire McKim wrote for this online UK news site about Scottish companies and electronic cigarettes on 2-17-2012.
Cloud of smoke surrounding the use of electronic cigarettes in Scottish companies.SMOKERS at one of Scotland’s biggest companies have been banned from using electronic cigarettes at their desks. Finance firm Standard Life say the e-cigs – which contain a nicotine solution but produce no smoke – breach their strict no-smoking rules. |
Now REALLY? This company knows that e-cigs DO NOT produce smoke however e-cigs “breach” their no-smoking rules. I don’t know about you, but if they have “no smoking” rules, how do e-cigs “breach” them? There is NO Smoke, as in 2nd Hand Smoke.
Ms. McKim goes on and discusses how celebrities use e-cigs and how e-cigs work …
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A-list celebrities including Kate Moss, Britney Spears and Johnny Depp have been known to use e-cigs and one manufacturer alone claims to have 20,000 customers north of the border. The battery-powered “healthy” cigarettes, which typically cost £20 – £30, heat up the nicotine solution, giving users a hit of their favourite drug and producing steam. A red LED at the tip of the e-cig completes the effect. |
Ms. McKim also explains Standard Life’s rationality on banning electronic cigarettes …
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But Standard Life, which employs 9,000 people in Edinburgh, says e-cig users will have to go outside to get their fix like regular cigarette users. She said: “Standard Life has been a non-smoking company for over 20 years and we have no plans to introduce e-cigarettes. We are very active in the promotion of staff’s health and well being. “We encourage and support staff if they decide to stop smoking through our occupational health department and the availability of on-site smoking cessation classes.” |
Yet, we learn the one of the biggest employers in the Scottish public sector allow electronic cigarettes, as well as Lloyds Banking Group even allows the use of electronic cigarettes. In addition, it seems that even the Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group is in approval of the electronic cigarette. He said: “The likelihood is that smoking electronic cigarettes is better than smoking tobacco. “Electronic cigarettes have the potential to save lives. The concept of nicotine replacement is powerful and good.”
There are people who completely disagree with Scotland’s Standard Life …
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Pro-smoking organisation Forest accused Standard Life of treating staff like children. Director Simon Clark said: “It is utterly crazy. A lot of smokers use them to help them to cut down on smoking, or to try to quit. If companies don’t want them to go outside for extended periods then allowing them to smoke an electronic cigarette at their desk seems logical.” “It is completely ridiculous to ban them. If it’s because they look from a distance like cigarettes then they are basically treating workers like children.” Read the full story here. |
It seems the people who wish to ban electronic cigarettes think they look too much like regular cigarettes. And, by letting people enjoy them, it would seem as if they encourage “smoking”
What do you think?
Posted by Claire McKim
on Feb 17 2012. Filed under Scottish News, Top Stories.
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Article source: http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/02/17/cloud-of-smoke-surrounding-the-use-of-electronic-cigarettes-in-scottish-companies/
