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And another reply -

Thank you for your email which is one of many I have received on this issue.

The vote on the Tobacco Products Directive has been postponed until the
October Plenary session with the support of myself and my colleagues in the
ECR Group, despite a proposal to include it in last weeks agenda.

I understand how important this issue is to you and everyone else who has
succeeded in giving up smoking with the help of e-cigarettes. Please see
below, a press release issued by my colleague, Martin Callanan MEP, who led
on this file for our Group, which may be of interest to you.

Yours sincerely
Robert Sturdy MEP



A real drag as European Parliament threatens to take electronic cigarettes
off the shelves

Brussels, 10th July 2013 -- Electronic cigarettes - which are being
increasingly used as a smoking 'quit aid' - risk being taken off the market
by a short-sighted vote in the European Parliament that will classify them
as a medicinal product, Conservative MEP Martin Callanan has warned.

Today's vote in the parliament's environment and public health committee was
intended to primarily look at ways of making tobacco smoking less attractive
to young people, through mandatory warnings, minimum pack sizes, and rules
on flavourings. However, the revision of the 'Tobacco Products Directive'
would classify most electronic cigarettes as a medicinal product, despite
the fact that in the UK alone 25 percent of all quit attempts were made
using e-cigarettes, making them the most popular quit aid.

1.3 million people in the UK alone now use electronic cigarettes (compared
to nine million tobacco smokers). Before the vote in the parliament today,
users of e-cigarettes (known as vapers) protested, arguing that through
e-cigarettes they were able to kick the tobacco habit.

Today's vote classifying them as medical devices will mean they must undergo
a costly and protracted authorisation processes. As many of the producers of
e-cigarettes are small start-up businesses, such a process could push many
out of business and reduce choice for e-cigarette users.

Mr Callanan, who was the European Conservatives and Reformists Group lead
member on the directive, proposed an amendment that would see e-cigarettes
authorised in a similar way to other nicotine products. Speaking after
today's vote, he said:

"It is preposterous to classify e-cigarettes as medical devices.

"Thousands of people have given up smoking thanks to e-cigarettes. For the
EU to over regulate them is completely counter-productive and hypocritical.

"Electronic cigarette production has become lucrative for many small
businesses and many jobs now depend on e-cigarette production. By making the
authorisation procedure for e-cigarettes so difficult, many of these small
businesses will pack up shop.

"This vote is not the end of this process and we will be working with vapers
to make other MEPs see sense and support e-cigarette producers and users.

"The world has gone mad when tobacco is less regulated than products
designed to end tobacco use."

ENDS

Great read, thanks

Greg do you fancy splitting these?

And there was me looking for hassle free vaping lol

I am sure you have all had sleepless nights worring about my PVC

So I put 30ml together today and you will all be glad to know it looks like everyone elses

Now the wait begins. But 30ml uses a whole heap of vanilla custard concentrate icon_shoppingm

stu1873 where did you get your flangeless one from?