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Archive for the campaign Category
Since the beginning of the electronic cigarette industry, smokers have warned us that governments would not allow e-cigarettes to strip them of billions of pounds of tax revenue. I’ve always been a little sceptical – surely governments woul…
Both in the run up to the discussions on whether to ban the ecig, and during the ENVI committee meeting yesterday, there’s been a recurring thread. That electronic cigarettes are a gateway to smoking. That electronic cigarette could encourage c…
There are nearly one million electronic cigarette users in the UK. Many of us are heavily involved in a campaign to protect the electronic cigarette from a proposed EU ban, with some MEPs reporting receiving hundreds and even thousands of letters of pr…
Update: The survey is now closed – thank you so much to everyone who participated! Pharmaceutical groups, and some anti-smoking groups funded by pharmacy, are campaigning against the electronic cigarette. But pharmaceutical groups do not vote …
On Friday EU MEP for Wales Dr Kay Swinburne very kindly set time aside to discuss the EU Tobacco Directive with myself, Jean (our MD) and Mike. Dr Swinburne is already convinced by the science behind vaping (her position was that she would prefer peopl…
Rebecca Taylor, Lib Democrat MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, although more open minded than some MEPs, has been calling for ecigs to be banned in public places. E-cigarettes should not be marketed in a way that “renormalises” smoking or broadens …
If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e-cigarettes we would save 5 million deaths in people who are alive today. It’s a massive potential public health prize. Professor John Britton, chair of the Tobacco Adv…
Only days after I suggested we needed a Europe wide campaign to fight an EU ban on safer alternatives to smoking, two French bloggers have joined the campaign to save ecigs, urging French vapers to write to their MEPs. A EU directive threatens t…
Following yesterday’s post, several e-cigarette users have shared replies from MPs and MEPs regarding the EU directive that seeks to effectively ban electronic cigarettes. While some of have promised to oppose the directive, others have asked for…
An EU Directive drafted by an EU commissioner since forced to resign for alleged corruption (seeking bribes from manufacturers of safe alternatives to cigarettes in return for editing the tobacco directive) could go into law unless we stop it….
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