I can only echo Clive Bates in that it's time to do all one can to hinder those who would see just about everything pleasurable prohibited.
We are now in a crucial week before the ENVI committee vote on 10/11 July and it’s time to get busyToo right. Do please go read his suggestions as to how you can urge Euro MEPs to do the right thing in relation to e-cigs (if not also snus).
Some are travelling to Brussels next week (July 10th) to make their presence felt and I will be tagging along too. If you'd care to join us, there are details of the event here. Meanwhile, inside the EU building, some MEPs will show how two-faced they are by hating tobacco but also objecting to anything which allows smokers to choose an alternative.
Meanwhile, one of the MEPs who actually understands the issue - as opposed to Labour and Greens who are determined to wipe out e-cigs for lazy and pathetic reasons - visited an e-cig manufacturer this week to get more info before the ENVI committee, of which he is a member, meets.
"I suspect [my father] was someone who would never have responded to nicotine patches" should be the rallying call here. Who does unless bullied into it by ridiculous legislation?
There's been far too much political pandering to pharmaceutical lobbyists over the past decade or so. It's time that politicians were told to start actually caring about health instead of ideology and vested interests. I think we can all agree with that.
So if you can't make it to Brussels, do please consider writing to your MEP and asking them to act on the side of the angels by resisting would-be e-cig prohibitionists next week. Every little helps, as they say.
So if you can't make it to Brussels, do please consider writing to your MEP and asking them to act on the side of the angels by resisting would-be e-cig prohibitionists next week. Every little helps, as they say.
