So, my question is this, have you written to your MP to tell them how vaping worked for you? If not, what (if anything) would convince you to do something to protect what we have?
I'v filled in the most recent EU consultation, for whatever good that will do. As for contacting my MP, I haven't (yet), she's a effing bitch anyway, and would probably send the police round.
Harking back to 2013- through to tpd introduction, I wrote to my MP, also the labour prospective parliamentary candidate, my MEP, plus other EU boffins and bureaucrats , I received no acknowledgements and not a single reply. I even took to mini trolling and leaving comments on youtube and the like, not a fcuking thing.
Go in a vape shop and start talking about tpd2, excise duties and bans, and see what the staff say, nothing at all, not even in Evapo, and they have spare staff standing around, ffs.
It seems like vapers simply don't give a shit.
Some of us do, many don't or they start going on about "Being ready", we can diy, I've got loads of gear, it'll be fine. That's not the fookin' point
Read the SCHEER shit, and learn something:
The share of respondents in favour of banning flavours in e-cigarettes has increased by seven percentage points since this question was last asked in the 2017 Eurobarometer. Interestingly, the older the respondents, the more likely they are to be in favour of banning flavours in e-cigarettes (41% of those aged 15-24, compared with 49% of those aged 55 or more) maybe because these groups are interested in using flavoured electronic cigarettes. Another option might be the regulate flavours that are specifically attractive to young people.
Nicotine-containing e-liquids have a stimulating effect on the reward system within the brain, which is implicated in the development of addiction (in Krüsemann et al., 2018)). Whereas flavours are added to increase product liking, addictive substances such as nicotine play a role in motivation and influence the reward system through mechanisms of learning and wanting (in Krüsemann et al., 2018). Specific to youth, nicotine addiction and dependence leading to lifelong tobacco use is a major concern when considering electronic cigarette use (Walley et al., 2019). Nicotine addiction is an adaption to nicotine exposure over time, and thus the high concentrations of nicotine in electronic cigarettes are of major concern.
With adult and adolescent smoking rates decreasing due to tobacco control efforts, there remains concern if the expansion of electronic cigarettes may hinder tobacco control efforts and impact smoking rates as adolescents and young adults who were likely to never use any form of nicotine products start experimenting with electronic cigarettes and other forms of nicotine delivery.
There is a lack of robust longitudinal data on the effect of electronic cigarettes on smoking cessation. Until such research is available, electronic cigarettes should only be considered to support smoking cessation for a limited time and under supervision.
https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/default/files/scientific_committees/scheer/docs/scheer_o_017.pdf
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Niyi Osundare wrote “Not My Business” in accusation of the murderous dictatorship of General Sanni Abacha who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. It is one of his most famous poems and it is a compulsory study in the AQA syllabus for GCSE English Literature.
They picked Akanni up one morning
Beat him soft like clay
And stuffed him down the belly
Of a waiting jeep.
What business of mine is it
So long they don’t take the yam
From my savouring mouth?
They came one night
Booted the whole house awake
And dragged Danladi out,
Then off to a lengthy absence.
What business of mine is it
So long they don’t take the yam
From my savouring mouth?
Chinwe went to work one day
Only to find her job was gone:
No query, no warning, no probe -
Just one neat sack for a stainless record.
What business of mine is it
So long they don’t take the yam
From my savouring mouth?
And then one evening
As I sat down to eat my yam
A knock on the door froze my hungry hand.
The jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn
Waiting, waiting in its usual silence.
