UK Reports on e-cigs.

[Bobbilly]

Here is how a public health organization should be doing things. Don't waiting for someone else to study things.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...hment_data/file/311887/Ecigarettes_report.pdf

From the conclusion-
"Electronic cigarettes, and other nicotine devices, therefore offer vast potential health benefits, but maximising those benefits while minimising harms and risks to society requires appropriate regulation, careful monitoring, and risk management. However the opportunity to harness this potential into public health policy, complementing existing comprehensive tobacco control policies, should not be missed."

 

[Vaslovik]

If the FDA and it's corporate handlers were concerned with our health and benefits to society at large this would make sense, but they are not. They are concerned with centralizing wealth and power in their hands and controlling us. Appeals to reason based on the public good fall on deaf ears with them, because they are all about the money and the power.

 

[Kropotkin]

Amazing how simple it all seems when public health officials actually concern themselves with . . . y'know, public health.

Thanks for posting, Bobbilly.

I'm sure Michael Taylor, our own M̶o̶n̶s̶a̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶o̶b̶b̶y̶i̶s̶t̶ FDA Chief, will find it fascinating reading.

 

[Dusty_D]

Moved to Media and General News

 

[Shirtbloke]

Just spent the last hour reading through that report. Interesting and mostly sensible stuff. The important part (for the UK) for manufacturers is this.....

"In 2013, after a consultation process that began in 2010, the UK MHRA announced that
from 2016, it intended to regulate electronic cigarettes and other nicotine-containing
products as medicines by function, and thus require manufacture to medicinal purity
and delivery standards, and proactive controls on advertising.
[88]
The proposed
regulation, described as ‘right touch’, is intended to provide a relatively streamlined
route to licensing, particularly by deeming any nicotine device that is proved to deliver
nicotine to be effective as a smoking substitute or cessation aid, thus obviating the
need for expensive clinical trials. Manufacturing to medicines standards does however
represent a challenge and inevitably increases costs. On the positive side however,
licensed NRT products currently enjoy a preferential 5% VAT rate, which to some
extent offsets these additional costs, and will benefit from being prescribable on NHS
prescriptions in the UK. Proponents of this approach welcome the quality and delivery
standards imposed, and the advertising controls which should prevent marketing
abuses before rather than after the event. Opponents argue that this level of regulation
will stifle innovation and delay development of innovative products that could save
lives.
"

 

[Shootist]

What a great article, thank you for posting it and thank you UK. I am saving it for reference and to give to those at my workplace if the subject, and misinformation (read that as LIES) comes up about me Vaping, occasionally, inside the office space.

My bosses have been on me for years to Quit Smoking which has fallen on deft ears until I tried E-Cigs and I actually wanted to quit.

I suffer from another addiction which I quit 22+ years ago with the help of an anonymous organisation. My bosses always say "You Quit that why can't you quit smoking". Smoking has been the hardest thing for me. All attempts, up until now, have failed within a few days.

 

[Stang ZA]

Thanks for sharing!

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