Board updates smoking policy language to include vapes and e-cigarettes

The board reviewed a draft that expands the workplace smoking policy to explicitly include vaping devices and e-cigarettes and debated whether to keep designated smoking areas. The Chair read the policy language noting the town "maintains a smoke free environment for its employees and visitors to municipal facilities" and a proposed definitional sentence: "For the purpose of this policy, smoking includes using cigarettes, cigars, pipes, e-cigarettes, vapes, vape pens, e pens, or any other devices produces smoke or vapor whether or not it contains tobacco or nicotine."