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US Tobacco Giant Reynolds Bans Smoking in its Offices

posted by janrinok on Friday January 02 2015, @07:37PM   
from the surgeon-general-approves dept.

"gewg_" writes:

AlterNet reports

The second largest tobacco producer in the United States, Reynolds American said Thursday it will ban smoking in all indoor office spaces, bowing to smoke-free social norms.

The manufacturer of Pall Mall and Camel cigarettes said starting from January 1, 2015 smoking cigarettes, cigars, and pipes in conference rooms and elevators will be prohibited.

Designated smoking rooms will be opened by 2016 at the company's headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and at its two other offices in Tennessee and New Mexico.

[...]E-cigarettes and chewing tobacco are still permitted. Smoking is already banned in the company's production factories, cafeterias and fitness centers, and the move to extend the no-smoking zone was in line with the public standards, according to [Reynolds American spokesman David] Howard.

[...]Smoking is banned in most public spaces in North Carolina, including bars and restaurants, but Reynolds America's offices are exempt from the law, Reynolds said.

• Relative dangers; "combusted" Relative dangers; "combusted" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 03 2015, @08:21AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 03 2015, @08:21AM (#131256)

  combusted

  Water isn't combusted, yet it vaporizes.
  My impression is that the vapes will heat the fluid until it becomes vapor (a change of physical state) but it does not *burn* it such that there is a chemical change in the substance.

  10x times as bad

  Can you be more specific?

  -- gewg_

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• Re:Relative dangers; "combusted" (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday January 03 2015, @01:23PM

  by kaszz (4211) on Saturday January 03 2015, @01:23PM (#131313) Journal

  10x carcinogenic substances in the vapor.

  techtimes.com: What Safe? E-Cigarettes Found to Contain 10 Times More Carcinogens than Regular Cigarettes [techtimes.com]

  For their study, Naoki Kunugita, from the National Institute of Public Health of Japan's Department of Environmental Health, and colleagues used a special machine to analyze several cartridges of e-cigarette fluids and found cancer-causing substances such as formaldehyde, which is used in embalming, and acetaldehyde in the vapors produced by some of these brands. /../ "In one brand of e-cigarette the team found more than 10 times the level of carcinogens contained in one regular cigarette," Kunugita told the AFP.

  In the beginning I thought e-ciggs perhaps was a solution to cigarettes and nicotine dependency. But now it's obvious it's just crap and even worse. Regulation is likely to follow soon.

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