The Electronic Cigarette (E-NI) and the smoking ban.

A law which banned the use of tobacco in public places was introduced into the UK in 2006.

The introduction of this act was in direct response to the thousands of people that die each year due to smoking tobacco or inhaling second hand tobacco smoke in public places.

Chaper 28 of this ban defines smoking as:

smoking refers to smoking tobacco or anything which contains tobacco, or smoking any other substance, and smoking includes being in possession of lit tobacco or of anything lit which contains tobacco, or being in possession of any other lit substance in a form in which it could be smoked.

Use of an electronic cigarette is excluded from this ban as it doesnt contain any tobacco, is not ignited and doesnt produce smoke from a burning substance.

You can legally use the electronic cigarette in any location and within any premises that introduced a ban on tobacco under the Law of the Health Act 2006.

Important niccotine facts.

Although an e-cigarette is a much safer alternative to smoking regular cigarettes, e-cigs do still contain niccotine, this is the substance that makes smoking cigarettes so addictive. Niccotine in the right quantities is a poison and can be especially harmful to young children.

Any niccotine cartridges or e-liquid must be stored in a safe place away from minors, if a niccotine cartridge was injested it could cause serious harm and medical assitance should be sought. e-cigarette-shop.co.uk will not sell products to minors.

The Royal College of Physicians in London, have stated that the risks associated with Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRP) to aid smoking cessation are significantly outweighed by the risks of smoking.

The paper further states "While nicotine itself cannot be completely exonerated from causing adverse health effects, it is clear that its direct contribution to tobacco related harm is relatively minor. It is not nicotine itself, but the delivery system - cigarettes are an exceedingly 'dirty' delivery system."

Two clinical trials of nicotine medication in patients with coronary artery disease, used transdermal NRT to aid smoking cessation - they have found no evidence that nicotine is injurious. (Joseph 1994). What was more interesting is that many of the participants continued to smoke, so they had nicotine from both the patches and the cigarettes!