Please accept my apologies for invading upon your no doubt busy schedule. My name is Me, and I am a constituent of yours living here.
The reason I am writing to you is to bring your attention to the proposed forthcoming vote in the EU parliament relating particularly to section 18 of the Tobacco Products Directive, which will in essence introduce a Europe-wide ban on products containing liquid nicotine.
To give you some (possibly unnecessary) background as to why this should be of significant concern, I would like to elaborate on just what e-cigarettes are and the differences to regular tobacco products.
Electronic cigarettes are a device containing a battery and a small container incorporating a heating coil. The container is used to hold a heavily diluted form of liquid nicotine. Known as e-liquid, this comprises propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, a flavouring and the liquid nicotine. The battery when triggered vapourises the e-liquid, producing the vapour from which this activity colloquially takes its nickname - "vaping".
As a long-term smoker of some 15 years, I have tried virtually every possible nicotine replacement or quitting therapy available - be it nicotine gum, patches, the neuro-receptor-blocking drug known as Champix, the frankly utterly pointless waste of taxpayer's money that is the NHS "quit kit" (when the success rate versus cost is taken into account), and quitting under my own willpower. Of these, the most successful had been my own willpower.
I discovered vaping as a substitute for smoking, and have not looked back - not touched a single cigarette since. While the entire effects of vaping are admittedly not thoroughly known at this juncture, it is undeniable that vaping is less harmful to the body than tobacco smoke (containing over 4000 chemicals, at least 69 of which are known to cause cancer). With an estimated 1 million UK citizens using electronic cigarettes in an industry approaching a £1 billion worth, I am sure I do not need to belabour the health benefits of this consumer-funded activity.
Without wishing to sound like a frothing conspiracy theorist, the multinational pharmaceutical companies operating worldwide who are invested in the nicotine replacement industry, and the various large international tobacco companies all stand to lose significant amounts of money to the disruptive industry of vaping if it is allowed to grow further. There have been accusations of corruption, resignations and investigations of MEPs surrounding the Tobacco Products Directive which only aggravate the view that the Tobacco Products Directive needs a much longer review period than Linda McAvan MEP seems to wish to allow.
Many thanks for your time and attention on this matter, and I hope it is of sufficient interest that this consumer-driven, disruptive industry which could potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives is about to be shut down by both the MHRA within the UK, and the European Parliament.
Kind regards,
Me
. Regarding atomizers, I like the look of the AGA T2 and the RSST. I would also prefer something small as opposed to a robo-wang...
