Ladies and Gentlemen,

I apologize if some of you are double-tapped by this email, but I'm erring on the side of ensuring word is well propagated....RNEC and NEC Directors, please distribute to everyone within your NEC and workspaces.  Mr. {REDACTED} sent this email out approximately 6 weeks ago, but I continue to receive many complaints across the brigade.  Please be respectful and disciplined in the workplace.  Tobacco use of any kind, to include e-cigarettes, is prohibited. Please re-read and adhere to the policy below:

Army Regulation (AR) 600-63, Army Health Promotion, paragraph 7-3a, 7 Sept
2010 (RAR), states: "Tobacco use is prohibited in all DA-occupied workplaces except for designated smoking areas, as authorized by Department of Defense Instruction 1010.15, Smoke-Free DoD Facilities. The workplace includes any area inside a building or facility over which DA has custody and control, and where work is performed by military personnel, civilians, or persons under contract to the Army."

To be clear, this restriction applies to Soldiers, DA civilians and contractors.

Leaders at all levels must be aware of Army policy on smokeless tobacco in the workplace and enforce the standard. Many do not interpret AR 600-63 as applying to smokeless tobacco. Smokeless tobacco, also called spit tobacco, chewing tobacco, chew, chaw, dip, or plug, comes in two forms, snuff and chewing tobacco.

The use of any form of tobacco can only be in designated smoking areas. AR 600-63, paragraph 7-3 A. (2) states, the designated smoking area will be at least 50 feet from common points of entrance and exit to a building.

Also, TRADOC Reg 350-6, Enlisted Initial Entry Training (IET) Policies and Administration, paragraph 2-11a, 8 MAY 2007, states: "All cadre and Soldiers with permanent party privileges are prohibited from using tobacco products in areas where IET Soldiers are likely to observe use."

Leaders have a duty to correct any violation of a standard. When they don't, they have just created a new standard. Soldiers look to their leaders to set the example. Leaders do the right thing. Uphold and enforce all standards in and outside the workplace.

Lastly, "Failure to observe written regulations, orders, rules, or procedures" is a specifically listed offense in the Table of Penalties for Various Offenses in the Management-Employee Relations Program.

http://cpol.army.mil/library/permiss/5a111.html

to include cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, smokeless tobacco, inhaled tobacco, and all other tobacco products designed for human consumption

No tobacco product in any workplace buildings, any internal “spaces,” DoD vehicles, aircraft, or naval vessels. This includes
e-cigarettes and all new and emergent tobacco products.

Source: U.S. Department of Defense 2003, 2005a,b; U.S. Air Force 2004, 2009, 2012a,b; U.S. Navy 2008; 41 Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 102-74, 2011.

Quoted:
The company I work for has decided there will be no tobacco products anywhere on company property starting Jan 1st.  This includes dip and vaporizers.

Quoted:
Bullshit.

Do the dippers go outside as well? Never had to in my unit (s)

BTW, has the .mil taken any general stance on vaping?

Quoted:
My work does not allow them either, classified same as a tobacco product. I have no problem going outside and using my vape, I do the same thing everywhere else but home.

Quoted:
I just pop into the toilet for a few minutes