The WHO Wants To Ban E-Cigarettes Indoors


Bad news, smoking friends. The World Health Organisation is really not on your side at all. You’ve been forced out of pubs, bars, restaurants, most indoor places, a lot of outdoor places, and generally been made to huddle in confined masses away from the unblemished lungs of the masses. Now even your less smelly alternative solutions are copping a pasting from those long-living do gooders.

E-Cigarettes are in the firing line of the global health watchdog, with the organisation wanting all existing “No Smoking” bans to be extended to include vaping. Whilst in general the battery operated darts are largely seen as being quit-smoking aids, the reality seems to be more that people are using the legal loophole to sit inside and suck ’em down like Coca Cola.
The WHO claims that “The fact that ENDS exhaled aerosol contains on average lower levels of toxicants than the emissions from combusted tobacco does not mean that these levels are acceptable to involuntarily exposed bystanders. In fact, exhaled aerosol is likely to increase, above background levels, the risk of disease to bystanders, especially in the case of some ENDS that produce toxicant levels in the range of that produced by some cigarettes.
So there it is, kids. Your days of munching down e-ciggies all day/all night could soon be limited to the outdoors. Those of you completely void of the demon stick will surely feel some sort of elation towards this news, and health organisations will also be pleased at the recommendation, owing to the fact that research into the benefits of e-cigarettes remains largely inconclusive.
That said, all y’all who do enjoy punching out the occasional vape currently be like:
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