Legal | Vaping at work: should you allow it?

It wasn’t that long ago that vaping was just not a thing. Although smokeless cigarettes were first conceived of in the 1980s, it wasn’t until the early 2010s that inhaling and exhaling via an electronic smoking device was popularised. 

Since then, vaping has had a rapid, if not problematic, rise. In 2014, it was named Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year as vape use proliferated alongside a growing consensus that the activity was a less harmful alternative to smoking cigarettes. 

However last year vaping made headlines with reports of deaths from vape users who had put street bought THC-based liquids in their device. 

There have also been growing reports of vape-specific lung diseases, despite many people saying that the activity is less harmful than traditional cigarettes.