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I have just read a document which is, supposedly, an appeal to the U.K. Health Secretary regarding the potential ban of electronic `cigarettes`in the United Kingdom. No doubt many other Forum Members will also have seen this.

I`m afraid that, in this case, an over-enthusiastic & commercially-involved person , by the presentation of a badly-written (almost incomprehensible!) document, has almost certainly severely damaged the chances of the proposed ban on electronic nicotine-delivery systems (e-cigs) being overturned!.

Rather than mention that our favoured alternative to smoking tobacco contains only pharmeceutical nicotine + a glycerine compound (which is often found in eye-drops & stage `smoke` machines).....he has launched into a full-scale request for tobacco-containing products to be totally-banned & completely omits to emphasise the fact that e-cigs do not contain ANY tobacco-derived substances .....any more than aspirin is no longer produced from willow leaves!.
Pure pharmeceutical nicotine is currently freely available (without prescription) to the general public, in the form of anti-smoking skin-patches, nicotine chewing gum , lozenges, inhalers etc. & I can see absolutely no reason why e-cigs & the substances contained therein, should be treated any differently.

I did not, from a brief reading of the `appeal/advertisement`, pick-up on the fact that there is no combustion at AT ALL of the (benign) materials contained within an electronic `cigarette`, or that the vapour emitted by the user of such devices contains only steam & a small amount of harmless, odourless, non staining & non-carcinogenic clear glycerine.....the nicotine content being totally absorbed on contact with the moisture within the user`s mouth!.

Unless we can clearly get these crucial facts across to `the powers that be`, then I`m very much afraid that our case will be lost forever.

If the Health Secretary were soley to read the above-mentioned appeal, he would be absolutely none the wiser as to the definite & positive advantages of our new-found alternative to smoking.

Somehow, it would be helpful for us to get across the , very valid, point that electronic cigarettes were developed in China, to benefit almost 2 billion tobacco-smokers in that country....which has NO National Health Service to alleviate the damage to public health caused by tobacco consumption!.

Nick.

Glad to hear some places (other than my local pub) are permitting `vaping`!

However, in a larger venue......especially if the manager is a non-smoker..... I suspect that it will be too much bother for them to differentiate: it`s so much easier just to ban things.

In my experience so far, it is all too often the `fag-smokers` who are most likely to create a fuss....they simply cannot stand the sight of someone vaping inside a `public place`......(a pub is not, by law, a public place by the way!).....when they are forced to stand outside in the cold & rain to have a cigarette.

I guess a lot of folk on here are going to place huge orders for atomisers, batteries, cartridges & juice well before the expected ban comes into force!

In the meantime I`m just off to order the juice Foxy recommended earlier.

Cheers for now,
Nick.

Thanks for all the excellent info guys......very much appreciated!
Nick.