UK Regulation of E-Cigs - Petition

[Rusty]

Ay Up Everyone,

Please sign up to stop E-Cigs being lumped in with smoking or NRT. Vaping is a smoking replacement for most - it is NOT smoking as it is not lit and does not contain tobacco.


UK regulation of electronic cigarettes Petition


Rusty

Also posted in the UK Social Group

[deewal]

Ay Up Everyone,

Please sign up to stop E-Cigs being lumped in with smoking or NRT. Vaping is a smoking replacement for most - it is NOT smoking as it is not lit and does not contain tobacco.


UK regulation of electronic cigarettes Petition


Rusty

Also posted in the UK Social Group

Who is trying to lump E-cigs in with smoking and NRT in the UK ?
Has someone made some sort of statement to that effect, 'cause if so tell us who and supply us with a link to the Statement or story.

Also posted in the UK Social Group

[Rusty]

Use this as a starting point deewal;

eSmoker Blog - Proposed UK legislation changes to include electronic cigarette

[Toby]

More info please Rusty!

Actual documents etc.

Hammer it!

Other people, please point out the BS.
e.g. quote -

"The use of e-cigarettes in premises where the law prohibits smoking could well encourage people to smoke, either in the mistaken belief that the law does not apply or is not being enforced, or that the individuals concerned will not be noticed and reported. There is also real potential for public order offences being committed where individuals are approached and asked or told to stop and this is challenged."

[Vocalek]

Rusty - Would it help or harm your cause to have Yanks sign your petition?

[Toby]

Sign here!

http://www.petitiononline.com/vaping/petition.html

[Rusty]

Below is a link to the original letter to the Department of Health from the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services, the Trading Standards Institute and The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health;

http://vapersnetwork.org/forum/attachment.php?aid=4


Vocalek - If US members could spread the link to the petition in all known vaping hideyholes, it would be appreciated. I do not think it is necessary for US Vapers to sign the petition at this stage. Thank you for your and CASAA's support.


Rusty

[mybitz]

signed.

Also got my doc to sign it, and a couple of nurses at the surgery!

more to follow...

how many signatories are needed before the PM even looks at it?

[Toby]

This is the reason a petition was thought to be necessary:

http://vapersnetwork.org/forum/attachment.php?aid=4

And this a letter from the Department of Health:

Dear ****

Thank you for your further email about e-cigarettes.

It may be helpful if I explain the context and the substance of the letter to the Department of Health from the organisations, Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services, the Trading Standards Institute and The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

These organisations wrote to the Department of Health in September 2009 calling for the definition of 'tobacco products' to be reviewed with a view to including e-cigarettes and similar products, or for these products to be regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the same way that they currently regulate nicotine delivery systems. They said in their letter:

Whilst Councils can continue to apply the General Product Safety Regulations and other safety legislation to these products, in the interests of consumer protection, it is considered that further products specific controls may be required.

You may be confusing the role of these organisations and the role of local authority trading standards officers. It is local authority trading standards officers who are the statutory enforcement officers for the laws to which you refer, in particular the consumer protection laws. Consumer protection laws are being enforced by local authority trading standards officers and that is why electronic cigarettes which do not conform with the relevant regulations have been removed from sale.

I am afraid that there is nothing further that the Department of Health can say on this matter.

Yours sincerely,

[Rusty]

Some worrying developments today - check out;

UK Department of Health - think nicotine is tobacco or smoking

I think it is now the time to act!