Electronic Cigarettes

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has assessed the effect of vaping on second-hand smoke inhalers; and what steps his Department is considering to tackle those potential effects.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 6th March 2018

Public Health England (PHE) published its most recent evidence review on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products on 6 February this year. PHE concluded that “to date there have been no identified health risks of passive vaping to bystanders.”

The Department will continue to work with PHE to monitor the evidence base around e-cigarettes. In the Tobacco Control Plan, published in July 2017, PHE committed to update their evidence report on e-cigarettes and other novel nicotine delivery systems annually until the end of the Parliament in 2022.

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