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Vaping: should it be banned?

What do KFC, Southern Rail, and Wales all have in common?

If you guessed right, very impressive, because they are just three in a growing list of bodies taking steps to stop people ‘vaping’ indoors.

‘Vaping’ – if you live in a box - is a growing trend which has seen some people adopt electronic cigarettes to get their nicotine fix.

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KFC stopped allowing people to ‘vape’ inside on their premises last year, Southern Rail joined the gang just a few days ago and Wales are taking steps to ban it in enclosed public spaces starting potentially, next year.

But how do the people of Kent feel in regards to people vaping indoors? We tried to find out.


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Whether or not e-cigarettes are bad for you is a source of contention. The World Health Organisation in 2014 called for a ban on it indoors – which was followed by the likes of Café Nero, Starbucks and as previously mentioned KFC.

Vaping e-cigarettes
Vaping e-cigarettes

A key argument was that it might see a rise in non-smokers being exposed to nicotine, persuaded to have a drag of the traditional tobacco cigarettes less big, less bad younger cousin.

However, tobacco experts at the National Addiction Centre at King’s College London have called the WHO guidelines “misguided.”

Whether or not the Welsh ban comes into place, it is unlikely that will finish the debate once and for all.

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