European ban on electronic smoking (petition against it)

[secondmessage]

The EU wants to make sure that the most hazardous nicotine-containing products (cigarettes) remain as only option on the market available to Europe's nicotine users.

Please sign the petition against a ban on electronic smoking! It only takes 1 min >> No ban on electronic smoking
Help spreading the word... thanks Alex.

 

[B.Traven]

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The petition mentions "powerful tobacco interests". In the US one of our largest tobacco companies--and one of the oldest companies of any kind in the here--Lorillard has bought an ecig company, Blu, for $135million. Has anything like this happened yet in Europe, a tobacco company buying an ecig company?

The CEO of Lorillard says that he thinks the ecig market is going to continue to grow at a rapid pace and that, since the tobacco companies have a lot of experience dealing with regulation and litigation, they should invest in this market apparently with an eye to controlling and direst the growth. But who knows what their real intentions are, they may be just planning to buy up the most established ecig companies to kill them, figuring that that's cheaper than paying lobbyists, or they may intend to invest heavily. What's happening in Europe?

btraven

 

[CommaHolly]

signed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Iffy]

Done.....!

 

[frosting]

Signed It

 

[haiqu]

Done. Not many so far, hope it makes a difference.

 

[xanderxman]

Signed. Hope to see more people get involved.

 

[rbuck9]

signed thanks for the heads up

 

[singu]

Signed! Stiil a low count...hopefully we reach 100.

 

[cricque]

signed, since I am from the EU, this might help

But we can not underestimate the tobacco companies and lobbying

 

[emonty]

signed and spreading the word

 

[Los Marauder]

Signed. Hope this helps you. Truely a sad deal they are trying to hand you.

 

[cricque]

I think this petition could use alot more signatures, sign up, no matter from which part in the world you are. Since this might backfire onto other parts

 

[PosingOwl]

Signed and passing it along.

 

[Frody]

Signed. Only 332 signers till now..

 

[Goyder]

Signed it.

 

[Jimi D.]

Signed ! Europe has the best vaping equipment on the planet. Period!!

 

[gumchewer]

Signed, Hope that helps
The Lorillard purchase may help explain the Blu commercials that have started appearing on TV. who else has the money to win that fight against the FCC.

 

[sherid]

This may have an effect on many tobacco/vaping issues.
In the early hours of the morning on Thursday 18th October, these three organisations had their offices, in Brussels, overturned and ransacked.

the ERS said that confidential data relating to the revision of the directive and other issues were stolen from its office.

According to the ERS, the outdoor sensors were destroyed and the
intruders "managed to skilfully evade indoor sensors within the office"

The draft EU Tobacco Products Directive must now be completely dead in the water.
Any new Health Commissioner would have to start again completely from
scratch, and can no longer just pick up where Dalli left off.

There was the possibility that the Directive could have attempted to
regulate electronic cigarettes by limiting the strength of nicotine in
e-liquid and cartomisers.

MaltaToday.com.mt...

 

[Dickyg]

Signed - after just finding ecigs I'd hate for a something to go wrong!