Electronic cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes, also known as E-cigs, Ecigs, personal vaporizer or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS), are a battery powered device - sometimes, but not always in the form of a cigarette, that can dispense a vapor that contains nicotine, but none of the harmful chemicals found in normal cigarettes where tobacco leaves are combusted.

For some reason, anti-smokers and other health lobbyists think that these are bad things, and they should be stamped out with the same vigor that they want regular cigarettes to be. Some of the spurious claims that have been made to justify this include

• They are a gateway to real cigarettes
• The optional flavorings make them attractive to children
• Second hand vaping
• It looks like/re-normalises smoking
• They should be classified as medicine
• Nicotine is a poison

P&O Ferries ban E-cigs, Sorta - Mar 2013

A customer, Mr W was told to stop using an Ecig with the member of staff citing the T&C's. However, it would appear (at least at the time) there was nothing actually in the T&C's preventing it.