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Many are not old enough to remember the good old High street Tobacconist
1 or 2 of these great little shops who's business model was offering for sale a vast array of cigarettes ,pipes ,cigars ,lighters,matches and flavoured tobacco from around the world could be found in most towns around the UK.

--- Up until 30-40 years ago these dedicated Tobacconist were the "vape shop of the twentieth century".

Sorry but to me this looks and reads very much like how the tobacco industry debunked and slanted results.
It would be very sad if the e-liquid market was to take a leaf from the same book in order to suggest a chemical might have been unfairly singled out.

The rules on business to business sales of industrial size nicotine base* would now suggest that providing customers confirms to the seller they have a legitimate business reason to purchase industrial size and strength nicotine base the sale is legal --- The purchase would not require a VAT number or LTD

For example:
The purchase of nicotine base with the intention of selling or at some future point selling finished e-liquids to over 150 countries outside the EU / not covered by TPD-- would be a legitimate
Business activity.

However not to require some form of confirmation of business intent from all customers ( example "Tick box" ) would likely be seen as "offering to the Public"


* 250ml would be seen as industrial size but 100ml or less might seen as to small

Do you own a belt sander!!!!!

Almost out of stock of 100ml bottles of my nicotine base
Unfortunately insisting on Vape grade EP/USP pure nicotine complete with a certificate of analysis by an independent, scientific, ethical and credible third party organisation before I part with my cash
has somewhat priced me out of todays market!

Yes very interesting
As this poll was conducted in the dedicated mixology section of this forum and received a total of 83 votes over a 2 month time span it sort of confirms how few people are into DIY ( i estimate a max of 30,000 with others estimating a possible 75,000 - 100,000 )
Of this relatively small number a little over 10% who took part in this poll might be on the hunt for nicotine base within the next four/five years.
This suggest unless things change the remaining market for nicotine base over 20mg and in quantities larger than 10ml after TPD. is likely to be between 3000lt and 10,000 lt*-- that is assuming little or no up take of the 10ml 20mg bottles that will be freely available on most web sites.

*This possible four year market totalling between 3000 lt- and 10,000 lt for DIY nicotine base still represents well over 10 x the volume of the entire DIY nicotine market back in 2011. but due to price falls far less in margins.




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