Enjoy vaping while you can, warns Public Health England

[Ron]

www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/20/public_health_ecigs_analysis/?page=1

[igual]

Well written article hitting the nail firmly on the proverbial head.

[djs]

It's desperate.

Latest estimates suggest that there are more than two and a half million vapers in the UK, and a third have stopped smoking, making it the most effective cessation product ever invented.

So, what do the nice folk in public health want to do?

E-cigarette use has hit a plateau in the UK (perhaps as a result of tabloid misinformation) and further adoption of the technology could be thwarted by regulation.

The United Nations (via its WHO arm) wants to ban e-cigarettes globally. In the UK, the immediate threat is from the EU, whose regulatory response is only slightly less potty.

Curious.... or plain insanity.

[Deleted]

Beam me up Scotty

[Raffles]

Aug 21, 2015 18:48:36 GMT djs said:

It's desperate.

Latest estimates suggest that there are more than two and a half million vapers in the UK, and a third have stopped smoking, making it the most effective cessation product ever invented.

So, what do the nice folk in public health want to do?

E-cigarette use has hit a plateau in the UK (perhaps as a result of tabloid misinformation) and further adoption of the technology could be thwarted by regulation.

The United Nations (via its WHO arm) wants to ban e-cigarettes globally. In the UK, the immediate threat is from the EU, whose regulatory response is only slightly less potty.

Curious.... or plain insanity.

Just plain self-preservation, it all stinks, like so many other things in this world. I'm buying shares in the 'brown envelope' industry, they must be making a fortune!

The impact on British vapers is likely to be significant, because the choice of regulator of e-cigs in the UK is most likely to be the MHRA, which is part-funded by the pharmaceutical industry. (The taxpayer pays for the regulation of equipment, while pharma pays fees for the regulation of medicine.) The drugs industries' own inferior NRT products (such as gum and patches, or varencline-based drugs such as Champix) have been comparatively ineffective in reducing smoking. What's the betting that the MHRA's interpretation of the directive becomes extremely demanding – demanding enough, say, to drive suppliers out of business?

[thatguy]

Another quality article from one of the best sites on the web.

[Skwoddy]

Just praying they take note that the directive is based on now defunct and biased information, loaded in favour of the big guns