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You can add on a bit for Gower Salt Marsh lamb. That's my mum's fault - when a local farmer complained he wasn't getting the price he wanted for lamb, she told him he should be branding it!

I'd rather send you some ejuice - have you seen the price of Welsh lamb! (Especially the salt marsh lamb from where I live!)

Wales is calling ecigs a gateway to smoking, and proposing to ban ecigs in all public places.

Not only will this mean an end to vaping cafes and shops, it could also spread to other areas of the UK and lead to a slippery slope of increasing restrictions on ecigs.

Please add your support to this thunderclap: www.thunderclap.it/projects/12762-stop-wales-from-banning-ecigs?locale=en Really important, please add your support!

I'm trying to get a Welsh letter campaign going against the proposed ban on ecigs in public places.

In this post:

www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2014/04/how-to-stop-the-welsh-ban-on-ecigs.html

I've made some suggestions on who to write to and what you might want to say (just in case some people are not sure!)

If you're in Wales, please consider writing a letter, if not, please spread the word so as many Welsh vapers as possible are aware of the proposed ban!

Based on my own correspondence, I estimate that we already have the support of at least 19 AMs, so it's definitely worth keeping up the pressure!

Thank you for reading

I'll have to try the lemon and menthol solution!

Clivia, we were going to do a testing video to try and demo the psychological element of tasting, but just ran out of time!

If you look at studies like this, it's actually a fairly large sample - 1,000 is generally considered sufficient. (Some of the passive smoking studies which have been used to make claims about a connection between lung cancer and second hand smoke have been based on just a 100 or so people.)

It's also an established way to measure opinion. Opinion polls are accepted because it is impossible to ask every person in the country how they would vote, just as it's impossible to ask 1.5 million people what they would do. Of course, some measure of error is expected, but I think it's clear that many people would return to smoking.

As for making up the stats, many of the people on this forum can tell you they answered the poll But I did anticipate the accusation of bias (if I understand it correctly I think you were trying to look at it from the point of view of a critic?), and my position is that while we're not the best people to carry out this sort of study, the people who should have carried out an impact assessment (EU commission, ASH, MHRA e.t.c.) didn't. So if we wanted any sort of assessment of the impact of vaping restrictions on smoking we were going to have to do it ourselves, despite the fact we would undoubtedly face these sorts of accusations. If it makes regulaters even think more about what they are doing we'll have achieved something.