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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 15, 2013 13:53:42 GMT
Ancient Hermit you could do worse then read www.ecita.org.uk/blog/, they were formed at the back end of the first MHRA attempt back in 2010 and they are heavily involved in fighting the TPD. Also see this guys comments he's very very good www.clivebates.com/Between them both they should give you the background, & whats going on right now. you can also have a peek a www.eccauk.org/ they'er undergoing a restructure at the moment but again some good stuff. Oops almost forgot ecigssavelives.co.uk/ a site set up & run by vapers Yes, I followed your link to The Opinion of Sir Francis, and sadly it's coming up 404, but I was able to see that it leads to almost the same place as my earlier link, except that having just followed mine again to test, it worked. Anyway, what did you think after reading the Opinion? Can you see the slightly grey area we could sensibly look more closely into using? I wonder how we could best make something of that obvious potential? Clive bates is a fun read for sure. He puts me in mind of a modern day Jasper Carrot! Very entertaining reading he produces. Shall of course await with interest to see what happens after the restructure at ECCA. ecigssaveslives seem to be be doing useful and constructive things.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 15, 2013 13:02:22 GMT
If the TPD goes through the UK will have no choice but to implement it, & that's where the fight is. I don't know about that, and I really do mean that I just don't know one way or another, but what I did read was this, and the doc it links to. LINK
Now I mentioned this earlier in passing, and got the responsible chap's name a bit wrong, it's a longish read, however it's also a very interesting read, it's in pretty simple largely plain English too. I am left wondering by having read that. I can see how some of this might not go through as straight forwardly as we seem to be supposing. Just maybe there is something to work with there. We'd need to do some homework of course.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 15, 2013 10:44:24 GMT
In defence of Kanger, we have bear in mind that this is still new technology and it can't be easy designing a bottom-coil clearo that works with any kind of juice (from 100% PG to 100% VG). Who knows, maybe future generations of the protank will be fully adjustable. On the subject of gurgling, I was wondering if it had anythong to do with the way individuals draw on their e-cigs. If you have a tendency to suck on the clearo you might be pulling too much juice into the atty, causing it to flood. What d'you reckon - are you a sucker? Fact is I think I know what's going on here, I don't use the heating system in the home much, and the tanks being glass and metal, take a chill overnight, and when I vape them, they go from cold to warming up, but along the way the vapour condenses and forms a load of condensation in the upper part of the tube, and it's that which gurgles. So, this is the summer and I can already imagine how this will be in winter, so, poor old kanger or not, I'm looking elsewhere having tried 3 of their products so far and had the issue with them all. Other makers examples of this new technology have impressed me rather more in that respect over the same period. I know nothing is perfect, but I can keep looking to find something that suits me better. On it's day, with a clean out, a brand new atty head, and no condensate, there is little I like better than my 2 protanks, and the evod can be nice for a bit too. However I do find they gurgle before very long, and that's when I am encouraged to reach for something else. I even cracked a smile at the Protank 1.5 they sent me a while back! I reckon they will possibly be scarce items, was funny though! For those who've not seen one it's a protank 1 with a protank 2 base block insert! It is an odd looking item!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 15, 2013 10:28:38 GMT
Don't sit back, and let it happen, don't wait for them to close the door on this, write to your MP/MEP now and tell them what it means to you. Politicians always listen to the loudest voice, at the moment that's the one whispering in their ears, we need to get louder folks. I'm wondering if we should go beyond contacting elected MPs. There's a general election coming up next year, so maybe we should be reminding all the candidates (especially Labour) that e-cig users have votes, as do their friends and families. Yes, that is exactly the right way to go about this - I thought it last night, knew it would help, had an idea I would maybe type it today, but thankfully you have! We need to tie up the V in Vape with the V in Vote! Make it clear, make it a logo for goodness sake, but get it out there and get it seen. Allowing Vaping is a Vote Winner. Simply because voting has been made largely meaningless for me now, I feel I could allow myself to be shallow enough (for one election), and vote for any party who has seen the end of this MHRA nonsense any anything else like it. Note that is not a vote for a party that promises to talk about it or sort it later, it's a vote to one that has actually done it! If they want power then that is the price they must pay first for me saying yes for them.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 23:56:39 GMT
If we can get more on board, then their revenues start to fall further and faster. If those start to lower their nic consumption then they hit diminishing return prospect. If when they do allow the law to run live in this country (NOT a foregone conclusion either, see Sir Frederick Jacobs' Opinion elsewhere), at that point we ALL request for NRT patches or whatever for free for 12 weeks, as we can do, to stop us going back to cigs - then, THEN we would see them in a really bad case of U-Turn as they work out the pricing on all that. What we need to do right now is make our intentions of doing all this crystal clear and publicly right now, then they got longer to worry about it! LOL I reckon they would have to make some obvious moves that would expose their true motives at that point (like stopping free NRT at least, it's that or pay up of course, and they won't want to do that), and It's my guess we got them fully and demonstrably exposed at that point! We just need critical mass for this to have a chance. If each one of us got one other on board we'd be self doubling in numbers, it's astonishing how that lark racks up and how quickly. If anyone sees any real gotchas, then let's hear them, we could do a lot worse than debug such a scheme, for example we could do nothing at all. That's not my idea of showing you intend to keep a hold of something of value to you!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 23:24:19 GMT
You don't need the mini to use on an ego - I think my spinner and twist look quite dandy with the beauty ring and a fullsize pro tank or Davide on them... Sure, but I found it sat a bit odd on the lanyard at that point, seemed too precarious to me as, with my protank, it was top heavy!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 23:16:29 GMT
OK, so we have 24 months as I see it.
It feels possible to me that in 24 months we could drop one mg per month on average, and be able to be nic free before it hits.
Many of us need more months than that? We could stock pile a little to see us through that I would guess.
However this is not to say that we need to stop vaping. I can't see me not vaping something for the flavour alone now. If it's still on sale then I'll be buying pg, vg and flavours.
What it could mean is that we would not need nic, and we might not need nic replacement either, this leaves big tobacco and big pharma stuffed, and I don't think they would like the Govt to let that happen.
I do take it that you can see how they would have a major problem with stopping it all at that point. All we need to do is commit to trying to do that. We'd be committing to becoming no longer being addicted to something they can control.
I think they might be worried enough to take another line at this point. A 12 Billion gap ahead IS a fairly large reason for them to want to no longer do it like they seem to intend.
We would need to get as many on board as it takes for them to become worried enough to act.
Does this not make some sense? ???
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 22:55:50 GMT
Caramel defo 2-4 weeks. Cherry, probably 7 days ish. Problem with caramel at 15% is it might leave you with a "Licorice-ish" aftertaste. PA are certainly one of the better flavour suppliers. Oh nice, I was sat here cursing this afternoon that I had not found and bought licorice yet! Seems a happy accident may be in the making there! LOL
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 20:03:38 GMT
Well, we then sit back and let it all happen? Is that really the best we can do? If it is, then we deserve to lose. I still reckon we should get more debate out into the media, and with more to haggle over, then the press can do what they do best, attempt to ridicule the authorities, either individually or as a whole. It is the "silly season" right now, and it seems there's not enough questioning getting out there given we have an open goal sort of time right now. When there is such a gap then why not plan to use it to our advantage? ??? Many of us have been working madly to do what we can to stop the nonsense. Unless I am very wrong, you may not be entirely aware of all the activity/campaigning going on. The problem is "they" want to turn all nicotine containing products into products that require a license. That means everything. Making a distinction between cig-a-likes and vaping makes no practical difference at this stage. ok, I'm all ears, what have I missed then? ???
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 19:37:02 GMT
The MHRA really are not quite that daft - they are targeting "nicotine containing products" which covers EVERYTHING.........and as Mr Mean says: "NONE SHALL PASS" in true Monty Python style - we need t cut their arms and legs off and they will still insist they can stop us! Well, we then sit back and let it all happen? Is that really the best we can do? If it is, then we deserve to lose. I still reckon we should get more debate out into the media, and with more to haggle over, then the press can do what they do best, attempt to ridicule the authorities, either individually or as a whole. It is the "silly season" right now, and it seems there's not enough questioning getting out there given we have an open goal sort of time right now. When there is such a gap then why not plan to use it to our advantage? ???
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 18:22:56 GMT
At the very least it could mean their debates would have to take much longer if the beast they fear suddenly had two heads and both need working on separately. It could spin out a few years longer given the way they go about things too!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 18:11:42 GMT
Hi Folks,
I saw a clip of some doctor on a breakfast show, it was Phil Schofield interviewing Linda Robson I think, and the doctor agreed with the idea of e-cigs, but expressed some concern over some of the products coming from China, and the quality being a bit suspect.
That is probably the perception a lot of folk could have if they see it mentioned often enough, and it seems to me maybe we should seek to distance Vaping from the average e-cig alike otherwise in legislating those, we get vaping thrown into the same category.
It may be that if we are a moving target in that way then we should or at least could be a bit harder to hit.
One or two MEPs are making encouraging noises about it all, and I wonder if that could be helpful in their attempts to lever the thing apart, in that there is an issue of what exactly people are trying to legislate for.
I could see the case for legislating the medicinal big tobacco e-gigs into a safer zone, but as long as that is not the same as vaping then we may come out of this better than we otherwise could.
I mean, we don't all have lights on the end of our devices, and then there are other appearance issues that might just cloud the issue in our favour too. The distancing could make us less obvious as a target for the anti e-cig brigade is all I am thinking. Not a truly bad thing I'd guess? ???
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 17:02:14 GMT
Thanks Hermit I ve got some Gold pack 25ml in the clearo just now 220713703018/10/2 stevia with 0.3% DNB I got the idea from something or other i saw in a chemist and liked the bar code in numbers idea of a recipe cheers I'd admit to favouring the year then month then day so today would be 2013-08-14 and I seem to recall that is called iso 8601 or some such. Fact is that I like it because when used on a computer that way (for folders and or files etc) it auto sorts them into the equivalent of time going forward as you go down the list. So I use it that way for pretty much everything now. Of course you can then add time onto the end of the date (24 hour format) and it stays in chronological order, as it should.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 15:50:41 GMT
Caramel is done now too, but I messed up and did it the same 15% strength - Oh well, at very worst it'll do as a baseline assessment I guess! These PA flavours are downright yummy smelling! LOL
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Aug 14, 2013 15:47:07 GMT
Ahhh got you.I must say my Egos havent seen the light of Day for about a year! I find eGos (3 650s, one of them is a vv twist) great for pottering about pruning and stuff in the garden, I use them on a lanyard, and hopefully the Anyvape Davide Mini will perhaps add something to it all as well! "I may as well try another brand while I am at it" was my other thought.
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