Firstly I’ll introduce myself.
I’m a self employed average working Joe, husband and father of three.
I started smoking when I was 18 and now I’m 55.
I tried patches, gum and will power to stop smoking, and failed.
I tried an electronic cigarette and succeeded.
But here’s the bit about which I am most pleased, I got my son an electronic cig and he’s stopped to.
The European tobacco Product Directive which will possibly come into force this year can be summed up as follows:
Cigarettes, and other combustible tobacco products are freely available.
Nicotine patches and gums and the like are freely available.
Nicotine fluid over 4mg/ml for electronic cigarettes is not freely available.
The reason is painfully obvious of course, the lobbying (bribing) power of the tobacco and pharmaceutical industry has a far greater effect in the E.U. than common sense and reason.
Time for some righteous indignation, certainly not.
Righteous indignation should be left for the righteously indignant.
Because after all ‘we the people’ have elected the mainstream career politicians which are allowing this to happen.
In short if we didn’t elect a bunch of self serving corrupt individuals we wouldn’t have a problem.
So what can we do about the EU tobacco directive?
My personal view is; ignore it, and source the fluid from outside the E.U.
If the E.U. is so corrupt, that it is happy to wilfully ban a product that has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, then it has no more moral authority to issue a law or directive than your local criminal gang.
If this directive comes to pass, I believe that it is the duty of every person who has managed to quit smoking using E-cigarettes to do the following:
1) Promote E-cigarettes to other smokers.
2) Source E-fluid from abroad and distribute it those who would benefit from it.
3) And for those living in the U.K. (politics aside if that is possible) vote UKIP (or other similar party).
I never thought I would grow to hate an ‘Institution’ like the E.U., but then I never thought I would manage to quit smoking either.
I’m a self employed average working Joe, husband and father of three.
I started smoking when I was 18 and now I’m 55.
I tried patches, gum and will power to stop smoking, and failed.
I tried an electronic cigarette and succeeded.
But here’s the bit about which I am most pleased, I got my son an electronic cig and he’s stopped to.
The European tobacco Product Directive which will possibly come into force this year can be summed up as follows:
Cigarettes, and other combustible tobacco products are freely available.
Nicotine patches and gums and the like are freely available.
Nicotine fluid over 4mg/ml for electronic cigarettes is not freely available.
The reason is painfully obvious of course, the lobbying (bribing) power of the tobacco and pharmaceutical industry has a far greater effect in the E.U. than common sense and reason.
Time for some righteous indignation, certainly not.
Righteous indignation should be left for the righteously indignant.
Because after all ‘we the people’ have elected the mainstream career politicians which are allowing this to happen.
In short if we didn’t elect a bunch of self serving corrupt individuals we wouldn’t have a problem.
So what can we do about the EU tobacco directive?
My personal view is; ignore it, and source the fluid from outside the E.U.
If the E.U. is so corrupt, that it is happy to wilfully ban a product that has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, then it has no more moral authority to issue a law or directive than your local criminal gang.
If this directive comes to pass, I believe that it is the duty of every person who has managed to quit smoking using E-cigarettes to do the following:
1) Promote E-cigarettes to other smokers.
2) Source E-fluid from abroad and distribute it those who would benefit from it.
3) And for those living in the U.K. (politics aside if that is possible) vote UKIP (or other similar party).
I never thought I would grow to hate an ‘Institution’ like the E.U., but then I never thought I would manage to quit smoking either.
