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Gemma, I use the Igo L with a single coil to flavour test my juice. It works extremely well and is very easy too set up, it might take a couple of goes but you will get there. I think mine was around a fiver from Fasttech

I have a feeling that a new workshop will be coming your way. Your going too be busy

Great company to deal with.

My first reply

Dear constituent,

Thank you for your email to Struan Stevenson MEP setting out your thoughts on a proposal issued by the European Commission to amend current European law concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products.

As you are aware, among the products to be affected by the proposed changes are electronic inhalers (e-cigarettes). The Commission proposes to limit the amount of nicotine in solutions sold for use in electronic cigarettes to four milligrams of nicotine per millilitre, unless the products have been classified as for medicinal use. This would render the solution too weak to be a viable source of nicotine for smokers or ex-smokers, or would require manufacturers to apply for a costly licence to manufacture medicinal products.

Many constituents feel similarly strongly and have also contacted Struan on this issue. Rest assured that Struan has examined the arguments and sees the potential e-cigarettes offer as harm-reduction devices to improve human health. He understands that e-cigarettes offer concentrated nicotine to addicts without the 4000 toxins and carcinogens found in tobacco smoke, that use of e-cigarettes removes the risk posed to non-smokers (and especially to children of smokers) by second hand smoke, that e-cigarettes appeal to adult smokers seeking to quit but not generally to children or those not yet addicted to nicotine, that traditional nicotine replacement therapies proposed by the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry have had very limited success in helping smokers quit permanently, and that thousands of British e-cigarette users (and millions across the EU and the world) are likely to return smoking if the directive is amended as foreseen and nicotine concentrations are limited to 4mg/ml. There is no doubt that this will lead to a large percentage of such users dying of smoking-related diseases that they might otherwise have avoided. Such arguments have led Struan to conclude that the proposed changes to limit permitted concentrations of nicotine solution sold in the EU are counter-productive and will do more harm than good.

As a member of the Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Struan is putting forward these arguments and working to convince other MEPs of the foolishness of diluting nicotine solution to the point of uselessness, or of limiting the availability of e-cigarettes by classifying them as a medical device. If you have not already done so I would encourage you to write to your local MP and request that they also raise the matter in Westminster. If we bring to the attention of the public, the political world and the media the strong arguments in favour of e-cigarettes as a harm reduction device and the number of lives which can be saved through their use, we have a very strong chance of winning the argument.

The plenary vote on revision of the Tobacco Products Directive is set to take place on 9 September 2013, although this date is subject to change. We are happy to receive any further comments and suggestions you may have before then.

I hope you find this information helpful and please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Best wishes,

Catriona


Catriona Meehan

Office of Struan Stevenson MEP
President of the Iraq Delegation
Senior Vice-President of the Fisheries Committee

European Parliament
Brussels

Whoa, I'd feel like Puff Daddy with that hanging out my mouth

Looks good ginge7289 but it'll take some elbow grease to keep that looking shiny