VIP Call to Action: Even more important than the petition

[Postmodern Smoking]

Now 50% of the Lords will receive at least one letter (486 letters), according to VIP's spreadsheet

Keep writing if you haven't already written to 6.

[VapingBad]

but they will go out tomorrow, 6th draft done

[Postmodern Smoking]

May 22, 2016 23:08:17 GMT VapingBad said:

but they will go out tomorrow, 6th draft done

6th draft ??? Is that all that you're up to!   .... I hate to think how many edits I made!










PS     

[VapingBad]

May 22, 2016 23:10:49 GMT Postmodern Smoking said:

May 22, 2016 23:08:17 GMT VapingBad said:

but they will go out tomorrow, 6th draft done

6th draft ??? Is that all that you're up to!   .... I hate to think how many edits I made!










PS     

I have that t-shirt, I also have to rely on the english writers in the house to proof read and they don't agree with each other, just getting the what I wanna say ATM.

[Postmodern Smoking]

Now 55% of the Lords will receive at least one letter (555 letters), according to VIP's spreadsheet   

Don't leave it up to a handful of people, please share your story with upto 6 Peers




Instructions: HERE 

[Postmodern Smoking]

Someone has made a step by step slide show, in Google slides, on what to do: here

[DiscoDes]

A copy of my letter now sent to 6 Lords :

Dear...................,

My Father died prematurely at 63 due to a smoking related illness and
as a 20 -30 a day smoker at the time I decided that I did not want this
to happen to me so I tried to quit. I tried on my own first by using
gum and patches but was not successful. I joined a stop smoking group
at my local GP’s Surgery without success. I was at my wits end. Then a
friend suggested I tried (a very new at the time) E-cigarette. I did
and I stopped smoking over night! That was over 6 and a half years ago,
solely due to using a E-cigarette (Vaping Device). These things are an
incredible invention, the science is in – they are much, much safer as
investigated by the Royal College of Physicians:
(https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction-0)
I now cannot stand the smell or taste of tobacco and will never smoke
again as long as I can vape. I have lost count of how many success
stories I have read, of people, like myself, who smoked for many years
but have been able to stop smoking and are now enjoying health
benefits, solely due to vaping (often also after having previously
tried every other possible way to stop smoking). There are now nearly 3
million people vaping in the UK with numbers growing very rapidly.
The potential is that the health benefits of vaping could save the NHS
a massive amount of money. Any negative changes regarding vaping would
cause me immense sadness, as vaping is clearly something much
healthier. Many small businesses have emerged in the last few years,
selling vaping equipment and liquids, and these small businesses have
nothing to do with the Big Tobacco companies.

However now the efficacy of vaping products has been severely curtailed
by Article 20 of the TPD (SI 2015/507) dreamt up in Brussels posing
draconian measures on Vaping Products. The main ones being:
1.Limiting nicotine strengths available for retail to 20mg strength.
Many vapers will tell you that they started vaping at strengths above
this level in order to curb the craving of a cigarette. This limit
greatly reduces the chance for someone to kick the cigarette habit.
After initially starting at a higher nicotine level many vapers drop
down to lower levels with many reducing right down to zero nicotine and
either continuing to vape to enjoy the various liquid flavours, or
stopping vaping altogether. Currently there are around 280,000 Vapers
using liquids at greater than 20mg strength to keep them off of
tobacco.
2. Limiting the available size of liquid refill containers to 10ml when
many Vapers buy the liquids in 30 or 50ml sizes (all with child
resistant caps). This has the perverse effect of:
a) Having to store more bottles increasing the chance that a child may
get hold of one.
b) Increasing the waste produced from empty bottles.
c) A 10ml bottle is a choking hazard for a small child.
There are an order of magnitude more hospital admissions in the UK from
adults and children drinking cleaning products than there are for
drinking vaping liquid, yet these products are not limited to 10ml
size.
Vaping devices (E-cigarettes) have created an incredible fuss in the
Public Health community though, I think many were just scared of the
unknown – one of the consequences is the drafting, and now enacting of
the rules which pretty much destroy the ecig market. They have made the
rules so burdensome that even now, after the law has nominally come
into force in the UK. there is no way to notify products so they can be
sold.
This letter to No. 10 gives a flavour of the mess which has been made:
nnalliance.org/images/resources/NNAPMMay2016.pdf
It is a potential public health disaster, lives will be lost if it is
allowed to continue, and the Lords has a chance to stop it.
Lord Callanan has tabled this motion: “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).”
I cannot comply with the law if it goes forward, I really do not want
to smoke again – I will turn to the black market, I don’t see how that
is making me safer? I don’t see how that is helping me.
Please support Lord Callanan, this law is going to cause harm, it must
be stopped!
If you would like any further information, anything, please do not
hesitate to get in touch.

Yours sincerely,

[james10]

Sending now.

[Postmodern Smoking]

[diche]

Nice to see my images being put to good use

[Postmodern Smoking]

May 23, 2016 20:58:38 GMT diche said:

Nice to see my images being put to good use

I wasn't sure who at VIP had made it.... but didn't think that you would mind it being spread around for the cause

[diche]

Anything that gets people involved is bang on in my book

[Postmodern Smoking]

Now 68% of the Lords will receive at least one letter (691 letters), according to VIP's spreadsheet

If you support Lord Callanan's motion then we need you to write..... please try.

[DiscoDes]

All 6 now sent (last night).

[DiscoDes]

68% Now covered

I cannot send any more (6 max per person) so it's over to YOU (those that have not done this already).
Don't just leave it to the few to defend your right to Vape.

The benefit is that it will keep your costs down and you will not have the inconvenience of the 10ml bottle and 2ml tanks, maximum 20mg nicotine juices.

It will also show those in Brusels that the UK can stand up to them.

Once you have your letter draughted you only need to cut and paste it to the recipients.

Please do it. It's a half hour of your time that will pay you back many times over if we can get the TPD annulled.