How are businesses responding to e-cigs in the workplace? Do they allow use in the building?

[bjfgator]

I was curious as to how ecig users were faring in the workplace? I was pondering this today because about a year ago we had a student who was trying to use one in the classroom during a lecture and I had to ask him to just "vape on break" because it was disruptive to the lecture. I had to laugh a little because during my first trip through college in the 70's I can remember smoking in class and the teacher smoking as well. He used a metal deskdrawer as his ashtray. (I had a portable ashtray but many used soda bottles or a cup of water to douse their butts in.) I just switched last week and when no one is in my office to see me I often catch a few vapes. If a school is "tobacco free" does that make vaping a product with nicotine banned inside also? If that is so, wouldn't people chewing nicotine gum or wearing patches fall under the same ban? Have any state laws been enacted to deal with this issue?

 

[brandontrjn]

E-cigs are still really new. There are very few laws preventing their use. What you have to consider is 1. a business' policy on their use and 2. social acceptability (I wouldn't walk into an emergency room vaping away for instance)

Most airlines have policies against using e-cigs for example (and their use is about to be banned on airlines by law)
Other businesses have policies against them. The polite thing to do is ask the policy of the business.

It's easy to get away with however considering that there isn't any smoke or smell...I stealth vape in the grocery store all the time and never have a problem.

 

[bjfgator]

E-cigs are still really new. There are very few laws preventing their use. What you have to consider is 1. a business' policy on their use and 2. social acceptability (I wouldn't walk into an emergency room vaping away for instance)

Most airlines have policies against using e-cigs for example (and their use is about to be banned on airlines by law)
Other businesses have policies against them. The polite thing to do is ask the policy of the business.

It's easy to get away with however considering that there isn't any smoke or smell...I stealth vape in the grocery store all the time and never have a problem.

Brandontrjn, Stealth vape.... I like that term!
Have you seen any news on how colleges and universities are responding?

 

[bjannr]

My workplace is tobacco free. I work the midnight shift and have been allowed to use my mods at will. I will be permanently laid off in two weeks so I doubt they will stop me now.

 

[brandontrjn]

Brandontrjn, Stealth vape.... I like that term!
Have you seen any news on how colleges and universities are responding?

What college?

 

[deathofelysium]

i use mine frequently in class, which most of my profs think that its cool and ask if you can vape weed or liquid ... from it (philosophy and lit mostly), but most of my managers are alright with it at work too, they know what it is, and the one actually turned me onto vaping, skuggi is a pretty cool manager

 

[tidegirl]

Depends on how they wrote the policy. My prn job enacted a smoke free campus policy that includes e cigs, and that is anywhere on the property. My full time job doesn't care, but there is no smoke free policy. Can you look up the policy and see what it includes?

 

[mra1]

im job is ok with it theres 4 of us in the office that vape

 

[wv2win]

I have no problem vaping in the office when I am in the office which is only about once a week.

 

[whitepony]

my employers are really against it

 

[tatum80]

My manager caught me vaping in the open and asked me what it was. I immediately had to come up with something that wouldn't get me in trouble. After explaining what it was, how it worked, what it costed, and where to buy them, he grew even more curious about it. But never once did he ask me to stop. And I work in retail!

 

[Estima]

Our workplace (a central UK government department) has no policy against vaping. But rather than just start vaping in the office, we've approached property management, Human Resources, the union, and the health and well-being committee. Three months on, they still can't make a decision and push the ownership of decision making round to each other (though the union are fighting the case for us). What they WON'T do is come and talk to us to find out more, which I find rather frustrating and irritating. I'll give them another week and if they do not respond by then, I'll just carry on in the building under the presumption that I've asked, got no reply, so thought there was no objection. I bet that'll shift them to make a decision.

 

[frndwthcrppl]

I work in a hotel and neither the general manager or the assistant general manager care if I vape as long as I'm not where guests can see me if I do it inside the building. They both are actually all for me vaping because it keeps me from smoking analogs. The agm is currently looking to start vaping after I and 2 coworkers of mine (one uses a greensmoke setup, I'm in the process of getting him to switch to something more reliable and economical) suggested he try it and offered ours for him to try out.