WHO calls for ban on e-cigarette indoor use

Electronic cigarettes should be banned from indoor spaces and face curbs on their sale over health fears, the World Health Organisation has said.

Despite releasing vapour instead of smoke, the devices, officially known as electronic nicotine delivery systems (Ends), still carry a risk to those standing around users, a report for the Geneva-based UN organisation said.

In a report, it said: “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.