UK CASAA members & Vapers CALL TO ACTION!!

[kristin]

The Medicines and Heathcare products Regulatory Agency in the UK is conducting a consultation on e-cigarettes. This appears to be simply a ban which will start in July (we think).

The consultation document and response form is here: http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Publications/...MLXs/CON065617

Please let them know what you think. They have to answer each submission, we believe, so this isn't simply a force of numbers need, we have to get them to think realistically and pragmatically about answers to the problems of regulation.

The reason they're doing this is because the Trading Standards people don't want to enforce existing consumer protection laws on recreational nicotine products. Laws exist to cover regulation already but this nicotine ban is to allow the MHRA to be enforcers instead and that means very strict, medicinal level regulation. The recreational nicotine market will be closed and only tobacco or NRT allowed.

One argument that they use to ban is the FDA report on SE and njoy cartridges.

Here's our UK petition, please share the link and sign it if you're a UK citizen - http://www.petitiononline.com/vaping/petition.html

 

[kristin]

CASAA will be putting together a formal response and the board invites our members to discuss here what you think we should say: Please click here to participate in the discussion

 

[argst13]

I filed my comments, I live in America, but hey the more people that let these clowns know, the better, imho!!

 

[CaptJay]

As a UK citizen, although not currently a resident, I both signed the petition and sent a feedback to the MHRA.
My feedback was quite long lol but I did mention, in polite terms, that banning this is basically condeming smokers to death (and the taxpayers to large bills on the NHS in the furture); that taxing and regulation was fine if they wanted to go that route, but banning it was a mistake. Really who will take the Govt seriously when they prothletise about smokers giving up if they remove a method which worked?

 

[Ardo]

The Medicines and Heathcare products Regulatory Agency in the UK is conducting a consultation on e-cigarettes. This appears to be simply a ban which will start in July (we think).

Why do you think it happens in July?