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Love the bit about e-cigs devices "known as pens"!

This is actually true - I have never used the word "pen" to describe any of the e-cigs that I have sold, but get asked about my "pens" or someone who "wants one of your pens" - on a regular basis - it is a name that seems to have caught on - with lots of the public.

Looks great, mate ! - enjoy!

If you thought that the Daily Mail article from a few months ago was bad,

If you thought that it just could not get any worse ......


Think again.

The Lancashire Evening Post has got to the very depths of bad reporting on e-cigarettes.

www.lep.co.uk/news/health/local/electronic-cigarettes-fears-1-5642830

The article, in which the reporter has done no research whatsoever, tells the story of a Taxi Driver who switched from smoking to e-cigs and developed gum problems (a normal symptom of stopping smoking cigarettes - described on the NHS website).

He blamed his gum problems on the e-cig and even said that his Dentist recommended smoking rather than using an e-cig.

The newspaper reporter rushed out the 'warning' article after spending 0.00 seconds doing any research. - remember, according to the LEP, the next time you want health advice, speak to a Taxi Driver, not any of the academics.

More news about Imperial Tobacco and their move into the e-cig market :

www.express.co.uk/finance/city/396029/Imperial-Tobacco-s-light-idea-to-go-electronic

The EU's JURI committee (legal affairs) has recommended that the ENVI committee remove e-cigarettes and certain other proposals from the proposed TPD.

This is excellent news for us as it indicates that somebody in the EU has actually looked at the public health issues instead of blindly following the EU / pharmaceutical and cigarette industry agenda to protect cigarette sales at any cost.

The JURI committee's recommendations in brief are:

- Remove e-cigarettes entirely from the TPD for two reasons:
- Less harmful alternatives to smoking are required
- The inclusion of e-cigarettes would not stand up to legal challenge
- Remove certain clauses that would delegate wide-ranging powers to the EU's committees and would remove those powers from the democratic process
- Remove or amend certain plain packaging requirements and similar measures for cigarettes


Well that is very good news for us.

Source here (Rolygate):

www.eccauk.org/index.php/news-and-blog/eu-juri-committee-recommends-removal-of-ecigs-from-the-tpd.html

And the committe report here (PDF)
www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bCOMPARL%2bPE-510.591%2b01%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN



Bloody Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes - the letters, emails etc to MEPs have been working after all - keep up the pressure, do not relax now !




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Yes - I think that is a very good point.

Mechanical mods, theoretically should be more reliable (and/or fixable) because there is no circuitry to go wrong.

There are some valid concerns - but on balance this will probably turn out to be more good news than bad.

It will not affect vapers very much - they will not be competing with other e-cig companies - the product will be aimed at smokers.

They will definitely NOT want a 4mg rule - they will want to be putting 36 or 45mg juice in their product (24 minimum) - and on that level it will help us all because they will have their lawyers picking apart any proposed legislation in order to keep the market open.

In order for them to maintain their main business - it is very much in their interests that e-cigs remain classed as recreational products regulated as general products, the last thing they will want is for e-cigs to be classed as medicinal. But they will get an MA if they have to.