EU Dear UK Friends

[Vocalek]

I'm afraid I was rather hard on your friends at the British Medical Association after seeing this:

BMA - E-cigarettes

They provide an online form, and I left this message:

If BMA cares whatsoever about human rights, how can you justify telling a smoker to not use an electronic cigarette to quit? A growing body of scientific evidence shows that these devices are helping smokers who struggled for years to quit. Face it: Those who have been unable to quit by doing it your way will continue to smoke. I would have.

Had I followed your advice three years ago, by now I would either be dead or lugging around an oxygen tank instead of regaining my lung health. So what you are encouraging, whether you realize it or not, is continued lung, CV, and cellular damage.

There have been no enforcement problems whatsoever in the USA states that specifically exclude use of e-cigarettes from smoking bans. Smokers often learn about the products by seeing them used indoors. This works as a powerful incentive to switch instead of to continue smoking. Your opposition to indoor use of e-cigarettes--and worse yet to their use at all--prevents smoking cessation. Shame on you!

If I get a response, I'll let you know.

 

[tommy2bad]

You were too easy on them.
A document that has big pharma written all over it.
TBH it the usual nonsense that we have come to expect from FDA BMA and the rest.
Worth a try to inform them but I think they know who butters their bread and until that changes.....

 

[rolygate]

See this for more on the BMA - the most ......ed, or the most financially conflicted, medical organisation in the world - you decide:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/health-safety-e-smoking/283546-bma-e-cigarette-briefing.html


The BMA - working to keep you smoking

 

[bumbleblue]

Agree , the problem or at least one of them as i see it with the uk specifically is that the govt HAS to make all the fuss and kerfuffle about smoking risks etc oooo you should all stop dangerous, think of the children blah.... BUT the NHS (National Health Service) is funded at least in part by the tax on cigs and alcohol so stop the smokers and stop the funding. Its a thorny issue for those of us who appreciate the NHS but see the hypocrisy of govt health warnings etc etc.