Vape Tax.. we all knew it was coming

[MarylinC37]

Technically nicotine is classed as a poison and there are seperate pharmaceutical regulations, unrelated to vaping, that govern it's supply if it's purity over over a certain amount. Morphine is the same and they are both lethal in high enough doses.

It's only after you dilute them down to safe levels that they are OK to use. TPD says that 20mg is the maximum allowable which is equivalent to no more than 2% in e-liquid (or 98% diluted).

I read that the first time morphine was ever administered by a doctor was in France in 1822 and he used it to murder one of his patients. Yet when we are in hospital in severe pain who doesn't cry out desperately for a dose of morphine. It's all about what is a safe level for our purposes.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

Meanwhile, in the real world, my wife has said it'd be nice to keep actual food in the freezer rather than all these brown glass containers...

 

[John R Phillips]

Vape Club sent me a (largely advertising) email which included a link to the consultation paper.
Okay, they are only one, but hopefully more vendors will follow suit.
If we can’t buy it, they can’t sell it

 

[John R Phillips]

Meanwhile, in the real world, my wife has said it'd be nice to keep actual food in the freezer rather than all these brown glass containers...

You need to have a stiff word with her - outrageous

 

[vapesmarter]

You can fill in as many forms as you like but unfortunately we no longer live in a democracy but what seems to be becoming a dictatorship made feasible by the current government to satisfy the super rich who control everything in this country.

true but the people who hate vaping have filled in the form I expect countless times if it’s not worth taking 10mins out to save what you love then you will loose

 

[vapesmarter]

That sounds like someone has fallen hook line and sinker for the bollocks spouted by the likes of the WHO on nicotine and in no way would help with the government's 2030 smokefree target.

I don’t understand you response banning and taxing nicotine is happening in the Australia and the the USA you don’t think it will happen here

smoke free by 2030 they have addressed that by banning tobacco year by year

vaping will help but not from the pressure of the media over disposables

 

[John R Phillips]

true but the people who hate vaping have filled in the form I expect countless times if it’s not worth taking 10mins out to save what you love then you will loose

Valid point. I read some of the comments on the BBC News report yesterday. A goodly number of non-smokers/anti vapours were voicing their support of pretty much a total ban. Popcorn lung raised its head and one anti suggested most disposable users live in squalor in and around inner city ghettos!
Really, you couldn’t make it up

 

[Deleted member 54254]

I for one yearn the return of the bathtub mixers when this all goes underground, the world needs more curly pubes, this manscaping lark has had its day....

 

[vapervince]

By the King reading the statement prepared for him by his government it has given them carte blanche to propose any legislation they see fit within it. The man in the street mostly thinks that vaping is another form of smoking anyway so the amount of people willing to stand up and make any sort of fuss over vaping must be tiny, i.e. not enough to affect the vote in a general election, I`m not saying that you shouldn`t stand up for your rights, but I personally think that the govt will lay it out to suit themselves and that`s the way it will be.

 

[Netvaper]

I don’t understand you response banning and taxing nicotine is happening in the Australia and the the USA you don’t think it will happen here

smoke free by 2030 they have addressed that by banning tobacco year by year

vaping will help but not from the pressure of the media over disposables

Banning nicotine hasn't happened anywhere if cigarettes containing it are still on sale.

It's only now 6 years to smokefree 2030 so the year on year increase in the legal age to buy cigarettes ain't going to do much for that.