No work ban on e-cigarettes due to poor evidence

The Irish Cancer Society says it’s disappointed that there are no plans to extend the workplace smoking ban to include e-cigarettes.

It is understood that the Department of Health found it was not able to include the vaping devices in the workplace ban because the evidence of the harm they caused was not strong enough.

The department has said current evidence did not support prohibiting e-cigarettes in public places but individual organisations and businesses were free to introduce an e-cigarette-free policy.