100's of businesses 'wiped out' if e-cigs licensed

[Matt Gluggles]

Interesting article in todays 'Times' newspaper, entitled
"Licensing delay leave e-cigarette manufacturers in Limbo"

The article is subscription only (behind a paywall), but for those of you with an online subscription to The Times, you can read the article here:

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/health/article3669009.ece

If you buy a copy of todays (26/01/13) newspaper, then the full page article is on page 51.


Below is a summary of the article :


It starts off by saying that the plan to licence electronic cigarettes has been delayed "amid fears that up to a hundred British businesses could be wiped out by the measure"

It gives the background to the MHRA consultation and the 18 month period that the MHRA has taken to 'gather evidence'.

Robert West of Cancer Research UK said that businesses would be allowed to continue only if they had a licence but that the MHRA were concerned that they would wipe out the market.

It mentions BATs' aquisition of Intellicig, and then has a few quotes from Katherine Devlin of ECITA.

ECITA said that there could be more vapers than smokers in as little as 5 years time and that they would take the MHRA to Court if they attempted to introduce licensing proposals and said that ECITA would win - citing four case precedents in Europe under the same law.

A spokesman for the MHRA said yesterday "We will be in a position to announce further details ... should the Government make the decision to regulate e-cigarettes as medicinal products"


Notice the subtle shift of position from the MHRA, giving them a face saving 'get-out' clause. They will regulate "if the Govt makes the decision", not them.



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[Deleted]

i.e. if anyone is going to "close down " 100's of businesses they would rather not be responsible and shift the blame to someone else

[andylec]

in possibly another recession only a suicidal government would shut hundreds of booming businesses...............surely ?

[scaffman69]

Jan 26, 2013 14:14:23 GMT andylec said:

in possibly another recession only a suicidal government would shut hundreds of booming businesses...............surely ?

A Tory one.

[deesigner]

I've just had a quick browse through the openers on a few more of their ecig articles, some interesting stuff!

'If the world’s one billion cigarette smokers were to switch to electronic cigarettes, the death toll would be reduced from more than five million each year to perhaps tens of thousands.'

[Banky]

If the TORYS get their way then yes hundreds of businesses will close, they still have the Thatcher mentality and
look what she did ran the country to the ground. Brought it to its knees.

[djs]

Interesting, I shall find a copy. (Blag a copy....)

I googled the "header lines" Smokers and e-cigarette users can expect to get up to 20mg of nicotine per day and, at that dose, nicotine appears....

and got a link to an article about E-Lites. (my favourite subject)

Fascinating. 20mg a day out of an E-Lite. To do that would require the use of 2 e-tips @ £7.99 per day.....and 2.5 batteries.

Kerching!.....£3,000 minimum a year.

Got to love those little beauties......so much vapour, so much satisfaction, so little cost....