I'm English. Today I attended an appointment with my GP (General Practitioner - a Doctor) to get the results of a blood test. The results were fine although I'm a terrible drunk; it seems that due to genetics I have an Olympic standard liver.
Whilst chatting, the conversation turned to smoking and my switch to ecigs. I told my GP that the BMA (British Medical Association) were getting on my nerves with their constant attacks on ecigs. I explained to her about their policy of lobbying for a ban in public places and their general policy of frightening the population not to use them. We spoke of flavours and the specious argument that this meant that ecigs were marketed at children; we spoke of the great amount of people who would switch to ecigs if you could use them in pubs; we considered the BMA's possible motive for their behaviour: ownership, unwholesome relationship with BP, maybe just anti-smoking prejudice. She made the time to listen to my diatribe about it all, and at the end she said she agreed with all I had said.
I said she should consider her membership to the BMA. She said that she already had two years ago and was no longer paying them!
I would urge all of you reading this to talk to any health care professional you meet with (doctors, dentists...the lot of them). Tell them about ecigs; request that they hit any representative 'union' where it hurts: the pocket. Ask them what they are thinking of if they are still associated with these lobbying bodies.
Perhaps this is a way forward.
Whilst chatting, the conversation turned to smoking and my switch to ecigs. I told my GP that the BMA (British Medical Association) were getting on my nerves with their constant attacks on ecigs. I explained to her about their policy of lobbying for a ban in public places and their general policy of frightening the population not to use them. We spoke of flavours and the specious argument that this meant that ecigs were marketed at children; we spoke of the great amount of people who would switch to ecigs if you could use them in pubs; we considered the BMA's possible motive for their behaviour: ownership, unwholesome relationship with BP, maybe just anti-smoking prejudice. She made the time to listen to my diatribe about it all, and at the end she said she agreed with all I had said.
I said she should consider her membership to the BMA. She said that she already had two years ago and was no longer paying them!
I would urge all of you reading this to talk to any health care professional you meet with (doctors, dentists...the lot of them). Tell them about ecigs; request that they hit any representative 'union' where it hurts: the pocket. Ask them what they are thinking of if they are still associated with these lobbying bodies.
Perhaps this is a way forward.
