VaperCaper
Achiever
- Joined
- May 21, 2013
- Messages
- 1,973
There is going to be a two tier system. There always was going to be a two tier system. It's the only way that big P can save some face now. Provided that the 'consumer product' tier is easily available to everyone (just like it is now) and they don't overly restrict nicotine content or size of tanks then it's all good.
If you claim your e-cig as a "quit smoking" product, then you have made a medical claim and "ta dah" your product is now regulated as a medicine according to the law as it is now. It costs North of £2million and takes several years to get an MA. which needs to be renewed annualy and you also need the GMP (medical standard) manufacturing facilities to be abl to produce enough product to recoup your costs and make a profit. Hence only large companies will be able to do it.
If e-cigs can be prescibed as quit aids by NHS GPs (they presently can't as none of them have medical authorisations) then the floodgates will open and smoking tobacco will be doomed. If an average user can easily get from a prescibed "quitting e-cig" to a decent vaping setup with the minimum of fuss then it's all good.
Don't forget that the reason that cig-a-likes need to have such high nic concentraton is that the coils/batteries used in them are so inefficient that most of that is wasted. A good well setup mod will deliver more of the available nic so the "hit" is about the same from juice half the strength. If we get stuck with 20mg max then some enterprising person somewhere is going to figure out a way to deliver it more efficiently and all of a sudden 20mg will be better than 45mg on a crap setup.
Look at how quickly the e-cig market is evolving. 18 months ago a VV eGo twist was the latest and greatest thing. How much better are the consumer products devices going to be in another 18months. (You can bet the farm that kanger et al are working on a kayfun like mass produced clearomiser)
It's a bit of an eyebrow raiser that the companies that hooked people into smoking are now the ones helping them out and getting paid for it by the Govt.
If you claim your e-cig as a "quit smoking" product, then you have made a medical claim and "ta dah" your product is now regulated as a medicine according to the law as it is now. It costs North of £2million and takes several years to get an MA. which needs to be renewed annualy and you also need the GMP (medical standard) manufacturing facilities to be abl to produce enough product to recoup your costs and make a profit. Hence only large companies will be able to do it.
If e-cigs can be prescibed as quit aids by NHS GPs (they presently can't as none of them have medical authorisations) then the floodgates will open and smoking tobacco will be doomed. If an average user can easily get from a prescibed "quitting e-cig" to a decent vaping setup with the minimum of fuss then it's all good.
Don't forget that the reason that cig-a-likes need to have such high nic concentraton is that the coils/batteries used in them are so inefficient that most of that is wasted. A good well setup mod will deliver more of the available nic so the "hit" is about the same from juice half the strength. If we get stuck with 20mg max then some enterprising person somewhere is going to figure out a way to deliver it more efficiently and all of a sudden 20mg will be better than 45mg on a crap setup.
Look at how quickly the e-cig market is evolving. 18 months ago a VV eGo twist was the latest and greatest thing. How much better are the consumer products devices going to be in another 18months. (You can bet the farm that kanger et al are working on a kayfun like mass produced clearomiser)
It's a bit of an eyebrow raiser that the companies that hooked people into smoking are now the ones helping them out and getting paid for it by the Govt.
