The Government are to blame for the BMA's ridiculous bullshit about vaping. The reasons being. 1 loss of tax that is on cigarettes. They bullshit that they want smokers to quit but hate the fact they are losing out on the extreme amount of tax they add to tobacco products thus they feel the need to try to put people off using e cigs. The only way they can think of doing this is to use lies and the BMA to help make there BS credible in most peoples eyes. Alcohol and Tobacco are 2 of the worst products affecting peoples health yet the government wants and allows there use. e-cigs are less of a danger yet they want to try and put people off using them . Theres also a drug called cannabis which some peoples health benefits from them using it . Again the Government don't want people to use it despite the medical benefit. And yes i do understand there is a downside to cannabis but no more than alcohol and not everyone suffers from using either just some people but the same could apply to almost every product ever made or infact natural productd. You could even die if you drink to much water.nothing is 100% without risk. Why they can't accept there is a health benefit that may outway any downside of a product is totally absurd. I smoked for 27 years and tried all the medical products to try to quit but none of them worked. E cigs have for the last 6 months and i now dislike the smell of burning tobacco but enjoy the tastes of many eliquids.
2 The tobacco companys are mega rich already but Thats what Conservative government is about making the rich richer while the poor carry on suffering and just managing or not. So there profit must be upkept hence the scare stories and lies.
If the Government or EU etc want to ban or limit vaping maybe they should firstly ban Alcohol and Tobacco.
I am not against drinking a pint or whatever. I just think Some Laws contradict themselves. I also know not everyone will agree with what i think. But The proof is out there and in truth most people believe what they want to hear or read even when it is inacurate
When it comes to vaping, the conservatives are probably the best of a bad bunch in terms of future policy direction... not that I would recommend voting for them.
Labour seem to want a heavy handed approach to vaping and the Lib Dems aren't much better.
Whichever party/coalition dictates long term policy on vaping, I can see preferential treatment being given to Big Tobacco/Big Pharma (who both have the cash to finance MHRA licensing). Licensed products will probably be given a medical classification, made available on prescription and be exempt from punitive taxation. This falls in line with your take on the conservatives and big business.
There would be a shortfall in revenue from tobacco taxation though, so I'd expect any product that doesn't gain licensing to be subject to punitive taxation (with the justification that unlicensed products can't be deemed 'safe').
This would result in a win for all the major vested interests in the long term (Big Tobacco/Big Pharma/Big Government) and if the anti smoking lobby latch on to the story that unlicensed products aren't classed as 'safe', it would give them something to police and justify their continued existence.
The only people that would suffer under this scenario would be vapers who didn't want to use licensed products and were forced to pay punitive taxation for using unlicensed products.
I've been bleating on about this little pet theory for a year or so now. I might well be talking crap, but looking at it from 'their' perspective and bearing in mind that big business/government can be expected to prioritise their interests over the interests of consumers, it seems like the logical outcome to me (if one takes it as read that vaping is here to stay and combusted tobacco will gradually dwindle and possibly disappear in the long term).
I also fully expect organisations that have come out against the Welsh ban and seem to be supporting vaping in general at present, to change their position once licensing kicks in and only support licensed products, not unlicensed ones.
