Whether the e-cigarette falls under the NRW Non smoking protection law should now be resolved in court.

He is a nephew of the Espelkamp slot machines manufacturer Paul Gauselmann . NRW has one of the sharpest Non smoking protection laws. The smokers have to do without in many places on tobacco consumption. At the same time the e- cigarettes are on the rise. For the Ministry of Health is clear that the e -cigarette falls under the law.wholesale vapor cigarettes

Some restaurant owners and arcade operators see it differently . They complain of sales declines , since the law came into force in May 2013. In the Spielotheken turnover is since fallen by 15 to 20 percent , says Paul Gauselmann slot machine manufacturers . When his nephew Manfred Gauselmann was asked by the clerk's office Rheda- Wiedenbrück to take action against e- cigarettes, this went before the Administrative Court in Minden. Previously, the district court had set the penalty proceedings .vapor cigarette wholesale

In the Cologne process laments an innkeeper . His lawyer is the administrative law professor Holger Schwemer . Schwemer has written a report for the association of e- cigarette trade. Thus, the e- cigarette is not covered by the Non smoking protection law. The legal text mention the e- cigarette does not explicitly . There will only spoken of the " smoking ", " and thus the process of pyrolysis, to which it does not come in the use of e- cigarette ." The e- cigarette is a device for inhaling vaporized liquid in place of cigarette smoke.

Health Minister Barbara Steffens ( Green ) disagrees: is in the grounds of the bill was clearly referred to e- cigarettes, says ministry spokesman Christoph Meinerz . Man leaning closely on a clarification of the federal government in December 2011. It states : " The federal government believes that electronic cigarettes basically fall under the Federal Non smoking protection law , because this law regulates a total ban without > Smoking is < differentiated in terms of consumption of certain product groups such as cigarettes, cigars, herbal cigarettes or electric cigarettes. "

In addition, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment ( BfR) in February 2012 have emphasized that risk to third parties " according to present knowledge can not be excluded " were . There are so many different liquids , the so-called Liquids that was questionable what a smoker in the specific case actually inhale . » BfR recommends to treat e- cigarettes in Non smoking areas like traditional cigarettes and to prohibit the e- smoking there. "electronic cigarette starter kits

It now must decide the administrative courts . Dates for the negotiations are not yet fixed . The Administrative Court in Minden seeks a decision claims to be well until after the verdict in Cologne