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Some top cards there sir, will be printing a few of these out. I've got quite a script together now, but the cards will certainly save a little time. Many thanks

Addiction.... "Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance"

So is fuel for my car, because without it, I cannot go to work as, like nicotine patches, there simply is no suitable alternative (i.e no public transport that would get me to where I need to be, when I need to be there)

So.... No fuel =
No work
No money coming in
No home
No taxes paid
etc, etc

So in feeding my 'fuel' habit, not only am I SAVING the govenment money, in terms of not claiming benefits etc, I am paying far MORE for this addictive product, in the form of duty and VAT than I should be (i.e giving more of my money in just the same way as I would by smoking tobacco, another addictive substance.

What is boiling the governments piss is that WE (without government / pharma / big tobacco) have found a suitable alternative to supply our needs, without a massive governmental mark-up.

Benefits be damned.....Its all about the money. Always has been, always will be.

Well tastebuds are playing silly beggers, loaded up a new clearo last night with RY4, had a quick chuff before I went to bed. Mmmm lovely. Woke up this morning and it tasted of dog blanket. Took it to work with me and ran one of my other clearo's dry so went back to the dog blanket and it tasted luvely again!. Its a damn good job I have stocked up with a 'selection'

Speaking of which, although I had put it off for a while, I have actually done a spreadsheet to monitor my spend AND monitor how many ml of juice I have bought and painstakingly from all the receipts I can see that......*#%kin' hell!

OK.... Including the first week without baccy where I had spend over £70 on E-Lite kits (which is still my emergency backup to my backup standby substitute (in reserve), I have spent..............




£448.68

and have.....

660ml of juice

And.... Im already eyeing up a stainless steel Vamo - (*STEP AWAY FROM THE CREDIT CARD*)

My question would be where is the best place to buy the 74mg nicotine (or however high it is) so I can stockpile e-juice, as I'll be damned if I let an unelected group of 'we know best' merchants, decide that my alternative to smoking tobacco requires meddling with that will ultimately put me back on the fags

Very good point! I'm in Shropshire and our closest B&M shop is Wrexham, but I would have thought Sunday Markets would be starting to get in on the vaping game, though our local one in Shrewsbury (which isn't very big) didn't have any such stalls.

Just emailed my MP the following:


Dear Mr Kawczynski

This is the first time that I have felt passionately enough about a topic to write to my MP about it.

Having been a tobacco smoker for over 30 years, I had resigned myself to the fact that I simply could not give up, despite wanting to for about the last 10 years and subsequently trying patches, gum, sprays, even hypnotherapy, all to no avail. It took a Cancer scare just before Christmas for me to try again at giving up.

Just over 4 weeks ago, I tried, for the first time an electronic cigarette or e-cig, and was amazed that, for the first time in my smoking life, I found an real alternative that worked. Since that time, I have not had one traditional cigarette and effectively now consider myself an ex-smoker.

Whilst e-cigs, still contain nicotine, they do not contain any of the many thousands of other harmful chemicals, found in tobacco smoke, as an e-cigarette, gives the user the nicotine hit by water vapour NOT smoke particles.

Whilst I appreciate that electronic cigarettes are a fairly recent development, the other components that form the vapour are nothing more than food grade glycerine, food grade glycol and food grade flavourings. Some medical professionals are calling for an out-right ban on e-cigs, simply because the long term effects are not known. However the harmful effects of smoking tobacco ARE known and despite what any Doctors say, I do know, for a fact that I DO feel better, I'm breathing easier and coughing far less and this is in just 4 weeks.

My reason for writing to you is that I have just been made aware that the EU is undergoing a revision of the tobacco products directive where there is a very real possibility that electronic cigarettes will be re-classified as a medicinal aid to give up smoking under the false belief that (along with everything else these days) needs government regulation. This I fear, will have a disastrous effect on the many thousands just like me, who have made the switch from tobacco to electronic cigarettes.

E-Cigs have never been marketed as an aid to quit smoking, but as an alternative to smoking. Therein lies the crucial difference. Reclassification as a medicine and regulation will ultimately reduce available strengths to the hopeless levels found in patches (I speak from experience). It will also significantly drive up the price to a level that currently has an cost advantage over tobacco products. Having pointed all of the benefits out to the smoking colleagues that I work with, I am proud to say that I have convinced 3 out of the 5 to switch from tobacco to e-cigs, with the other 2 very likely to switch soon.

As my MP, I feel that you need to understand what e-cigs are all about, how they are improving lives (like mine) and fight our corner to stave off any such regulation that will ultimately turn me back to smoking tobacco products, as regulation and restriction of e-cigs will, without fail significantly reduce their effectiveness as a realistic alternative to smoking tobacco.

I look forward to your response in due course