In case you haven't noticed yet Vapers in Power are in the final few days of their crowdfunding campaign to get together the necessary to fund two candidates in the UK General Election. The funding deadline is the early hours of Wednesday morning UK time (April 01, 2015 11:59pm PT)
It has been a pretty successful day with an additional £85 added to the coffers. The total now stands at £1872 ($2785 USD)
The candidates WILL be standing, but every pound makes a difference to how much noise they will be able to make. Each candidate obviously has the deposit to pay, but this gives them FREE postage to nearly 140,000 households that means there are printing costs for 140,000 leaflets, they get FREE meeting halls, but it isn't much use if they can't afford to light and heat them. If you are reading thinking "but I'm in the US this doesn't effect me" think again. Vapin g is a global phenomenon and governments do base their decisions on what other nations are doing. How many times have you read the opinion of the WHO quoted even though American policy is set by the FDA and State Legislature? Every country that introduces harsh restrictions increases the likelihood that it will happen elsewhere.
The aim is to raise £3000. ($4462 USD)
Often with the campaigns that take place it feels a little like we are stuck in an echo chamber only reaching the few people that have an active interest in the subject and failing to penetrate the psyche of the vast majority who instead get their news from the scaremongering stories in the tabloid press.
This is an opportunity to break out of the bubble, and gain genuine mass publicity for vaping and the issues of Article 20 of the tobacco Products Directive which comes into law in May 2016. The wording of the TPD leaves options open to the governments that are signed to it. We need to make it clear that those options need to be exercised in a way that benefits the health of the population and preserves the right of choice. The right of nicotine users to choose to vape.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vapers-in-power-general-election-campaign-2015--2/x/8997189
It has been a pretty successful day with an additional £85 added to the coffers. The total now stands at £1872 ($2785 USD)
The candidates WILL be standing, but every pound makes a difference to how much noise they will be able to make. Each candidate obviously has the deposit to pay, but this gives them FREE postage to nearly 140,000 households that means there are printing costs for 140,000 leaflets, they get FREE meeting halls, but it isn't much use if they can't afford to light and heat them. If you are reading thinking "but I'm in the US this doesn't effect me" think again. Vapin g is a global phenomenon and governments do base their decisions on what other nations are doing. How many times have you read the opinion of the WHO quoted even though American policy is set by the FDA and State Legislature? Every country that introduces harsh restrictions increases the likelihood that it will happen elsewhere.
The aim is to raise £3000. ($4462 USD)
Often with the campaigns that take place it feels a little like we are stuck in an echo chamber only reaching the few people that have an active interest in the subject and failing to penetrate the psyche of the vast majority who instead get their news from the scaremongering stories in the tabloid press.
This is an opportunity to break out of the bubble, and gain genuine mass publicity for vaping and the issues of Article 20 of the tobacco Products Directive which comes into law in May 2016. The wording of the TPD leaves options open to the governments that are signed to it. We need to make it clear that those options need to be exercised in a way that benefits the health of the population and preserves the right of choice. The right of nicotine users to choose to vape.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vapers-in-power-general-election-campaign-2015--2/x/8997189
