No vaping, Leo: Oscars bans smoking of any kind for its big night after DiCaprio was spotted puffing on an e-cigarette at the SAG Awards

  • The Dolby Theatre will have a strict no smoking policy on Oscars night 
  • This also applies to e-cigarettes and vaping will be banned from venue 
  • Comes after Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted vaping at the SAG awards 
  • The pictures prompted a backlash from the American Lung Association  

By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline

Published: 08:10 EST, 3 February 2016 | Updated: 12:22 EST, 3 February 2016

He was pictured celebrating his best actor win at the Screen Actors Guild awards by smoking an e-cigarette during the ceremony.

But Leonardo DiCaprio will not be able to do the same at the Oscars later this month after vaping has been banned inside the venue.

While it is illegal to smoke vape pens in Los Angeles restaurants, bars and other public places, the prohibition does not include 'theatrical production sites' such as the Academy Awards.

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Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted smoking an e-cigarette during the Screen Actors Guild awards, which were held in Los Angeles on Saturday 

Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted smoking an e-cigarette during the Screen Actors Guild awards, which were held in Los Angeles on Saturday 

However, unlike the Shrine Auditorium, were the SAG awards were held, Hollywood's famed Dolby Theatre has an outright ban on all forms of smoking, including e-cigarettes.

And according to TMZ, the theatre will make no exceptions to their smoking policy, even on Oscars night.

Instead, anybody wanting to light up will have to go outside and stand in one of the smoking sections adjacent to the Dolby Theatre.

It comes after DiCaprio was spotted vaping at the SAG awards on Saturday as he sat at a table with some of his Revenant co-stars.

It had now been reported that the Dolby Theatre, pictured, has banned all kinds of smoking, even vaping when it hosts Oscars night 

It had now been reported that the Dolby Theatre, pictured, has banned all kinds of smoking, even vaping when it hosts Oscars night 

At the ceremony he took the award for best male actor in a motion picture and paid tribute to the film's cast and crew, as well as thanked his parents.

However, after the event, he was scolded by the American Lung Association for being spotted vaping during the ceremony.

They said that it was 'deeply troubling' to seem such a high-profile name smoking an e-cigarette.

The health watchdog later issued a tweet, where they pointed out the health risks associated with vaping.

It is believed that DiCaprio took up smoking e-cigarettes in 2013 and has been spotted using them at the Cannes film festival last year, left, and at the US Open in 2014
It is believed that DiCaprio took up smoking e-cigarettes in 2013 and has been spotted using them at the Cannes film festival last year, left, and at the US Open in 2014

It is believed that DiCaprio took up smoking e-cigarettes in 2013 and has been spotted using them at the Cannes film festival last year, left, and at the US Open in 2014 

It read: 'Spot someone vaping at the #SAGawards Sat. night? Learn more about health risks of #ecigs: Lung.org/ecigs'

The group on its website said that e-cigarettes are 'entirely unregulated by the US Food and Drug Administration' and studies have shown secondhand emissions include cancer-causing toxins.

It is understood that DiCaprio took to smoking e-cigarettes in 2013 and has been spotted using them previously at the Cannes film festival last year and at the US Open in New York in 2014.

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