Headlines. The Times newspaper UK. “Bosses should consider allowing their employees to vape at their desks, campaigners have said. Graham Jukes, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, said making it easier for people to use e-cigarettes than to smoke tobacco might help them to switch. He added that offices did not ban cakes and biscuits despite a national obesity crisis, so e-cigarettes should be the same. ‘It doesn’t harm the person next to you, and that’s the same argument I would apply to vaping — it isn’t actually affecting anybody else’.”