Health: Lower Saxony Extends Smoking Ban to Vapes and Cannabis

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More protection for non-smokers: Until now, e-cigarettes have been excluded from the nationwide smoking ban.

Hannover (dpa/lni) – The smoking bans in restaurants, hospitals and co. will also apply in Lower Saxony to e-cigarettes, vapes and the evaporation of cannabis. The Landtag has adopted a corresponding bill of the government factions of SPD and Greens. The CDU also agreed. The AfD abstained. So far, the ban was expressly applicable only to smoking. Smoking of a joint with cannabis has already been covered as well. However, the reform also prohibit…