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Employers have a duty of care at common law and under work health and safety laws to protect people in the workplace from the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke and exhaled vapours from e-cigarettes/vapes. Reasonable measures should be taken to prevent the risk of passive smoking. Further, ‘anti-smoking’ legislation in each state and territory prohibits smoking in all enclosed workplaces and some unenclosed areas.

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