The Anti-Vaping Lobbyists: The WHO latest recommendation includes 'banning' indoor vaping.

The latest recommendation by the World Health Organisation (WHO) says "electronic-cigarette users should be legally requested not to use electronic cigarettes indoors, especially where smoking is banned, until exhaled vapour is proven to be not harmful to bystanders and reasonable evidence exists that smoke-free policy enforcement is not undermined’. 

A legal request, is what most of us would call, a ban. 

It is so sad that all the negative lobbying against the e-cig could result in this ban which would defeat one of the main benefits or vaping which is to be able to do so in places where cigarette smoking is prohibited, i.e. indoors.

BBC News reported that Hazel Cheeseman, from charity Action on Smoking and Health, said there was no evidence of any harm to bystanders and warned regulation needed to be proportionate. 

Within their recommendation the WHO would also like consideration given to banning producers making health claims about e-cigs, severe restrictions on the promotion of e-cigs such as claiming or purporting to them being an aid to assist in quitting smoking and preventing vending machines from selling e-cigs.

Hazel Cheeseman said that "Smoking kills 100,000 people in the UK alone" and "Smokers who switch to using electronic cigarettes in whole or in part are likely to substantially reduce their health risks.

"Although we cannot be sure that electronic cigarettes are completely safe, as the WHO acknowledges, they are considerably less harmful than smoking tobacco and research suggests that they are already helping smokers to quit."

It is interesting that the big tobacco companies are busy buying up e-cig companies and at the same time producing their own e-cigs. Ladies and gentlemen they are doing this because their profits are falling as we cease to need to buy tobacco from them. It is in their interests to reclaim some of that lost profit, re-harnessing those sales by producing their own products. Whilst their financial power can in some ways be beneficial to the e-cig industry, one of the negativities that come along with this is that the e-cig is by association with them becomes "tarred with the same brush" as something dirty and damaging to health. 

Organisations and public health lobbyists like nothing more than a new ledge onto which to hook their views and kill off the e-cig.  

More from the WHO recommendation: http://www.who.int/nmh/events/2014/backgrounder-e-...

Read the BBC News report in full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28937610