Freedom to Vape Blog
Hartlepool Borough councillors' vaping ignorance on full show
November 24, 2016
In our recent report on the vaping policies of UK councils, Hartlepool Borough Council responded by saying that it "requires staff and customers to use tobacco and/or e-cigarettes off site away from entrances to buildings"....
Read More ShareThoughts from 'The E-Cigarette Summit'
November 18, 2016
I didn't know that the e-cigarette summit was taking place this week until I received an email about it on Monday evening. Many thanks to Amanda Strange, who organised the event, for allowing me media accreditation...
Read More ShareFreedom to Vape campaign responds to the World Health Organisation's threat of a vaping ban
November 11, 2016
On 20 September, Prof. Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England, said during an interview on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 that the NHS should continue to help people give up smoking using...
Read More ShareThe madness of WHO and COP7
November 11, 2016
Opacity and the World Health Organisation (WHO) go together hand in hand. This has been well documented by Dick Puddlecote in his excellent blogs from the COP7 jamboree in New Delhi this week. This sight of...
Read More ShareManchester City Council bans e-cigarettes because of a "genuine health and safety question"
November 08, 2016
When compiling our report on the vaping policies of UK councils, one of the Freedom of Information (FoI) replies I received made me chuckle because it was so egregiously bad. I didn't include it in...
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