The Andalucian regional Ministry of Equality, Health and Social Policies is set to regulate the use of electronic cigarettes within the scope of its powers, which means that the devices will be banned in health and education facilities.
The electronic devices typically vaporise a mixture of nicotine, propylene glycol and other chemicals. Monitoring will be carried out to ensure that these products are not sold with a message that they are beneficial to health in any way or that they assist people to give up smoking.
France, Malta, Belgium and Luxembourg have already decided to treat the electronic cigarettes in the same fashion as normal cigarettes and they therefore cannot be used in enclosed public spaces.
Italy has announced its intention to ban electronic cigarettes in educational facilities and prohibit their sale to anyone under sixteen years of age.
The World Health Organisation (WHO ) has declared a ban on the use of slogans implying that electronic cigarettes have any potential benefits when it comes to helping people quit smoking as there is currently no scientific evidence to corroborate such a statement.