MHRA needs more time

[alanfinal]

I quite agree Giles,that this particular what shall we say (movement against e cigs) boils down to someone wanting a bigger slice of the pie and/or someone not wanting to lose a slice.

I had a long thread on a car forum were a brought up the subject,a smoker argued with me by using links from that discredited test and all the reports that followed like in the daily fail,I then had to present the facts which he chose to ignore,the biggest problem is we are being hit by TV newspapers and the media in general and now as people start recognize vaping they see it in a bad light.

Makes me want to have the next South East meet outside No.10

[doodlebug]

Obviously, I can't reproduce the whole article here, because I don't want to get this forum (or any!) into trouble with copyright laws, but for those who haven't seen it, here is Clive Bates's comment:

"It's a very good decision, and if the reasons given are right, the MHRA have been very wise on this. It would be ridiculous if, in the name of health and safety, the regulator carelessly wiped out a nascent industry supplying alternatives to cigarettes that smokers seem to like and that are probably 99% or so less dangerous than smoking. The trouble with classifying and regulating e-cigarettes as medicines is that they are not medicines, they are alternatives to cigarettes. Medicines regulation is fundamentally heavy handed, imposing massive compliance burdens, costs and restrictions. 'Light-touch' medicines regulation is about as likely as low-fat lard and so we need to find a genuinely proportionate way of regulating these products that recognises they are alternatives to the most dangerous consumer products imaginable. In other words, without letting inflated concerns over minor risks in e-cigarettes mean that the totally unlicensed market for super-harmful cigarettes is protected from competition from better, much safer products by perverse regulation."

Low-fat lard!!! ROFPMSL!!!

Cheers,

Katherine

[jakethevape]

Well lets hope the EU gestapo hold fire for 18 months. Then it gives more time for us to build a case against the death mongering so called politicians who are there for "our needs".... I forgot the word our was changed in the dictionary as an abbreviation to Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, we must update our dictionaries people!