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I have just had an extremely fruitful meeting with my MP John Pugh (Lib Dem)
Sat down with him and plonked my e-cig (Ego vision 1000) down on his desk along with a bottle of HS delight which he was extremely interested in and proceeded to tell him of "my journey" with e-cigs.
I then told him about the impending tobacco products directive (which he had not heard about) and had a good half hours discussion with him.
The out come was that he is 100% behind us and was quite perplexed why the EU was getting involved and regulating for regulation sake (his words), at which point I mentioned Big Pharma etc which he took on board.
I told him about harm reduction and explained the ludicrous situation that if this ban comes into effect 750,000 people who are now vaping in the UK will go back to smoking over night, to which he wholeheartedly agreed with.
He is now going to write to the department of health and will be speaking to our MEP and also bringing the subject up with a couple of ministers.
He seemed genuinely pleased to run with this and will be keeping me informed, so all in all it went very well and we seem to have another influential ally

I know exactly what you mean, every time I walk past the fag counter in my local tesco where I used to buy my daily fags i can hear "kerching" in my head

Same with me mate, I've never been able to taste much no matter what flavour I buy
The first day I started I could taste OK but since then I can't taste anything in the morning then around mid day I can taste slightly and towards the end of the day I can't taste anything at all and I only used to smoke 20 marlboro lights a day so not a heavy smoker
But I'm getting my nicotine so I'm happy because I could never taste fags anyway

I don't think It's a coincidence that all this advertising has appeared so soon after the EU directive fiasco (see my similar post) it looks like the big e cig companies are organising an attack

Danny how do I create an account? I can't find a link on your site

what makes my blood boil about this reply is, these are the people who are deciding the future of e cigs and it is blatantly obvious that they know absolutely nothing about them - this quote for example


"On the other hand e-cigarettes currently can
contain up to 48mg of nicotine - far more than a regular cigarette, making
them highly addictive."

This guy must think that there is some kind of look a like e cig that contains 48mg of nicotine,
unbelievable absolutely unbelievable

Than there is this -

"Furthermore, there is no evidence that
e-cigarettes are safe,"

Erm sorry but there is, and more importantly there is no evidence that they are unsafe.

And another -

"As nicotine is the drug that makes cigarettes
addictive, somebody that tries e-cigarettes could be much more likely to go
on to smoke regular cigarettes"

Sorry again, the normal route is that they will try the market leader in nicotine delivery first off,
the market leader being a CIGARETTE, and just as an aside, imagine a vulnerable teenager having a toot of Dave D's 48mg RY4555444 in his super duper Provarlavatubesilverbullet, it would blow his bloody head off and he would never go near a chrome tube again.

Thanks guys, that's excellent, I think I will e mail ASH and see how these figures were estimated.
I don't want to to go to this meet "half cocked" it comes from years of negotiating with management as a shop steward