No. We have just amended our "smokefree Policy" to include e-cigs (and Chargers) 3,500 staff.

No - 15000+ This also includes company vehicles, mainly because from a distance they look like real cigarettes. On a personal note try eating your lunch with someone blowing one in your face (with a rather smug look) then see people feel about them!!!

No approx 550 FTE's Over 40,000 fans and 2000 employees (total) on a match day

Separate smoking shelters for ecigs, banned in the workplace. 10,000 The article quoted above by Professor Britton also states that the health benefits of using ecigs has yet to be proven. Most still use nicotine mixed with other bits.. There are also articles that ecigs are actually being used as a pathway for young smokers who then take up 'proper' smoking...

Quote from ASH - "There is little evidence of harmful effects from repeated exposure to propylene glycol, the chemical in which nicotine is suspended. One study concludes that electronic cigarettes have a low toxicity profile, are well tolerated, and are associated with only mild adverse effects". This is not suprising as you are swapping from a cloud of burning particulates & gases containing 4000ish harmful substances, and replacing it with 4 chemicals ( Nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerin and food flavourings ), nothing is completely safe but all bar the most ideological within public health agree they are orders of magnitude safe than normal cigarettes. There is no evidence that vaping provides a gateway to smoking, quite the opposite in fact. E-cigs have been around in widespread use for over 5 years, if there was a gateway effect we would have seen a rise in smoking rates. Latest figures show that in 2013 smoking rates reduced by the highest amount since 2007, largely attributed to increased use of e-cigs. Another quote from ASH - "E-cigarettes are used by both smokers and ex-smokers, but there is little evidence of use by those who have never smoked or by children" It is important to remember that e-cigs are a truly disruptive technology that threaten the incomes of both the tobacco and pharmacuitical industry who stand to lose billions if most smokers swapped. It is sad that myths regarding e-cigs are leading to smokers continuing to smoke when a far safer alternative is available. It appears from this thread that many organisation have based their e-cig policies on these myths. If any of us manage to put in effective policies that encourage smokers within our companies to switch, it is probably the most effective health intervention any of us will ever make in our careers. To ban these products based on very small risks and industry myths would be a lost opportunity of epic proportions.

More independent clinical research is needed to clearly support both views. Just because there are less toxics in one device as opposed to another does not make it good for the body... Proper cessation of smoking programs are free and available on the NHS and that is where we should be pointing staff not to another corporate entity.

jump...I am assuming you are a smoker yourself? Seem to remember a similar argument when asbestos was hailed as the great fire protection saviour... Facts are they both contain toxics and whether you question it or not the NHS programs save thousands of loves every year.. There have been no hard facts presented. My view has been to separate rather than ban...so not quite sure why you are so vociferous in knocking down my rather sensible posts.

As if we needed more on the subject...Advice from the BMA Advice for health professionals In light of the lack of scientific evidence about the efficacy and safety of e-cigarettes, coupled with the absence of a robust regulatory framework in the UK, health professionals should encourage their patients to use a regulated and licensed nicotine replacement therapy to help quit smoking. Where a patient is unable or unwilling to use or continue to use an approved and tested nicotine replacement therapy, health professionals may advise patients that while e-cigarettes are unregulated and their safety cannot be assured, they are likely to be a lower risk option than continuing to smoke.

Well done you...just need to make the final step now to completely quitting... The policies tho' shouldn't be written around personal preferences they should be written around solid facts and figures....