Anyone got anything more on this whole eu directive thing? Had a quick google there and it seems it doesn't do much except require the marketing of vaping kit as "smoking cessation" products as opposed to smoking replacement, and the max strength of juice you can buy is 20mg (although i'd assume that lower strength will still be easily available as thats sort of the point of cessation is to decrease).
Although i'm not that fluent in lawyer so i might be wrong.
It will entirely depend on how the UK implement it and how heavy handed they intend to be with policing it.
To summarise the key points that have to be implemented (no wiggle room on these)
No tanks to be sold that hold more than 2ml
No tanks to be sold that don't adhere to the new leak-free filling rules
Liquid cannot be more than 20mg/ml
Liquid cannot be sold in bottles larger than 10ml
Liquid bottles must have child-proof caps
E-cigs must carry warnings that they are not to be used by non-smokers and that they contain highly addictive substances
E-cigs must provide a consistent / regulated amount of nicotine (no devices on the market at the moment can do this)
Manufacturers must submit information on every device / variation of device and flavour they wish to sell. This must include toxicology information, nicotine dosage, and other stuff
Together these will mean that pretty much everything we buy at the moment will be prohibited from sale. Vaping will go underground though with devices sold as torch batteries (510 connection torch bulbs are already available), atomisers sold as air fresheners or something similar, etc etc.
It's not the end of the world for us existing vapers but it will put significant barriers in the way of new vapers, which is a shame.
