Bosses should consider allowing their employees to vape at their desks, campaigners have said.
Graham Jukes, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, said making it easier for people to use e-cigarettes than to smoke tobacco might help them to switch.
He added that offices did not ban cakes and biscuits despite a national obesity crisis, so e-cigarettes should be the same. “It doesn’t harm the person next to you, and that’s the same argument I would apply to vaping — it isn’t actually affecting anybody else.”
Public Health England this week came out in support of e-cigarettes, saying that they were 95 per cent less harmful than the tobacco alternative.
Amanda Sandford, information manager at Action on Smoking and Health, said: