Holy smoke! Camel cigarette maker snuffs out workplace puffing

Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc has banned smoking from its offices and buildings. The company has informed its employees the use of traditional cigarettes, cigars or pipes will no longer be allowed at desks or offices, conference rooms, hallways and elevators. The ban comes into force next year, once the company builds smoking areas for those still wanting to light up indoors. Smoking is already banned on factory floors, in cafeterias and fitness centres.

We’re just better aligning our tobacco use policies with the realities of what you’re seeing in society today.

Reynolds spokesman David Howard

A spokesman for Reynolds - based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is the U.S.’s second-biggest tobacco company - said the new policies “will better accommodate both non-smokers and smokers who work in and visit our facilities”. While Reynolds will no longer allow smoking, it will allow the use of smokeless tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and moist snuff. Through its subsidiaries, Reynolds American also makes Pall Mall cigarettes, Grizzly smokeless tobacco and Vuse-branded electronic cigarettes.

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