Unlike the traditional tobacco cigarette, the use of an electronic cigarette in public places in the UK and many other countries around the world is completely legal. As we all are only too aware, legislation is being constantly revised and updated to prevent people smoking in public places. But fortunately for the users of the electronic cigarette in conjunction with e liquid, this is not the case, and people are becoming more use to seeing them being used in public places – and they are now less likely be frowned upon.
The main reason for this is that there are no current laws against it, in the UK and many other countries. One noticeable difference is that the electronic cigarette uses no combustible materials, so it can’t legally be classified as smoking. As well as nothing combustible being present, electronic cigarettes use no tobacco products; another reason for them not being covered by anti smoking legislation.
The use of an electronic cigarette whether it is in a public place or not, uses nicotine based liquid solution that produces a vapour. There are no tobacco products or combustible materials at all.
The user simply puffs on the device in the same manner they would with a tobacco cigarette, and this heats up the nicotine solution, which is stored in a small tank or cartridge, and this produces the vapour that looks like smoke, can taste just like a normal cigarette, but has no tobacco present. When the vapour is inhaled it gives the user a nicotine hit, just like smoking does.
The vapour can still escape into the atmosphere, but poses no danger to it or to people around it, so there is no danger through passive smoking.
Another big plus of using an electronic cigarette in public is that you are now not banished outside into the cold to have to satisfy a nicotine habit. You can relax with your friends and colleagues in bars, restaurants, football stadiums or any other public place, and puff away on your electronic cigarette to your heart’s content, without the fear of being asked to put it out, or leave the premises.
