Urgent sign House of Lords petition could stop tpd

[Greigster]

The target has moved to 25000....... so I suspect we are aiming for 100,000 to ensure it is debated in the commons.

[Postmodern Smoking]

May 19, 2016 16:34:49 GMT Greigster said:

The target has moved to 25000....... so I suspect we are aiming for 100,000 to ensure it is debated in the commons.

AFAIK with Change.org the target automatically updates to a higher target goal as the number of signatures exceed the previous milestone.

[chykensa]

Signed and tweeted - total now 15,629

[Postmodern Smoking]

#LordsVapeVote to @number10gov @jeremycorbyn @martincallanan

[Ron]

Anyone in the know.....How do I tweet....

[Lauren @Rejuiced]

Signed

[Bobsbeer]

Sent an email to Tim Farron MP, who is also the leader of the Liberal Democrats. He is my MP, but more importantly has influence over Lib Dem peers.

His email is [e-mail]

Dear Tim,

I would like to ask you as leader of the Liberal Democrats to urge all Liberal Democrat Peers to back the motion proposed by Lord Callanan.

“Lord Callanan to move that a Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty praying that the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, laid before the House on 22 April, be annulled on the grounds that its restrictions on product choice and advertising of vaping devices were devised before evidence had accumulated that vaping was enabling many people to quit smoking, run counter to advice from the Royal College of Physicians to promote vaping and are so severe that they could force vapers back to smoking and create a black market with harmful products (SI 2015/507).”

The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 are the result of the Tobacco Products Directive from the EU. While I support sensible regulation of e cigarettes, the regulations being proposed will reduce the effectiveness of a method that is making a real impact on those able to successfully quit tobacco. I count myself as one of those who has not used tobacco for 18 months directly as a result of an e cigarette.

The evidence is now becoming overwhelming in favour of promoting not stamping out e cigarettes. Please act to save others.

Department of Health’s Impact Assessment DH April 2016
“There is a risk that due to the potential price increase and reduction of choice of e- cigarettes, people will choose to switch back to smoking” (paragraph 207)
“if users can’t get the desired nicotine level from e-cigarettes they may switch to cigarettes” (paragraph 200)
the number of e-cigarette products on the market could fall 96% from 25,000 to 1,000 (Annex B page 74 )
the rules could reduce e-cigarette advertising by 90% (paragraph 176)
“There is a risk that a black market will develop with potentially harmful e-cigarette products” (paragraph 208) Royal College of Physicians Report

RCP Report April 2016
"Promoting e-cigarettes... as widely as possible, as a substitute for smoking, is therefore likely to generate significant health gains in the UK” page 189
forcing e-cigarette packaging to carry big health warnings is “illogical” - page 160
Please use your influence to save lives.

Thanks,

[spacey]

Signed - my fingers are crossed so hard for this to work that I can hardly type

[joeten]

Signed and FB.

[Grandad]

Signed and fb too

[Postmodern Smoking]

Also consider writing/emailing your MPs, asking them to urge their Peers to back the motion proposed by Lord Callanan...

www.writetothem.com/?a=westminstermp

[Postmodern Smoking]

May 19, 2016 17:13:18 GMT Ron said:

Anyone in the know.....How do I tweet....

Unfortunately I'm not on Twitter yet either Ron, I believe you need to sign up here
Maybe chykensa can offer some insight into how to tweet?

[VapingBad]

May 19, 2016 16:34:49 GMT Greigster said:

The target has moved to 25000....... so I suspect we are aiming for 100,000 to ensure it is debated in the commons.

The more the better, but it will not involve the commons as if it succeeds the statutory instrument is dead in the water and the commons don't get another chance to reverse the decision.

Procedural: unless Lord Callanan is forced by pressure from Downing Street to withdraw his motion there will be a debate and a vote. Under parliamentary rules if the Lords agree to this motion the statutory instrument implementing the TPD in the UK will fall. Such procedures are called “fatal motions” because the regulations get killed outright and do not go back to the Commons. (For geeks: the Lords have until 10 June to vote against this delegated legislation. That will be the end of the 40 days of “praying time” during which a successful motion can block the statutory instrument. This is the case even though the law has previously gone into effect as the TPD will on 20 May.)

nnalliance.org/activities/news/119-house-of-lords-vote-would-scupper-tpd

[Postmodern Smoking]

17,141 signatories at the moment .... let's keep it climbing!

[Mrsmac]

Done and shared amongst my friends