The Community Safety Factor By Chris Price
Much has been written about why medicinal regulation of e-cigarettes is inappropriate and incorrect. Luckily we will The exemplary safety record of e-ciganot have to worry too much about these rettes issues since all such regulation has been Nothing at all, in contrast, has been written about some of the important factors that overturned by every court that hears a challenge to such commercially purchased make e-cigarettes safe. This exceptional safety record is probably unique, and there laws; thankfully the courts universally disagree that the pharmaceutical industry are good reasons for its existence; the same factors do not apply anywhere else (and should be allowed to use the law as a especially to medicines). There are factors commercial tool. that apply to e-cigar ettes that are not seen Clive Bates’ excellent articles on why there are no good reasons for medicinal anywhere else: they are entirely new and regulation of e-cigarettes, and why every there is no way to recognise them in current argument for such regulation is fallacious, regulatory processes. One of these factors is typically unusual are worth reading: and has never been mentioned in the wider http://www.clivebates.com/?p=1252 discussion on electronic cigarette safety or http://www.clivebates.com/?p=1351 regulatory proposals: the consumer safety Less has been written about how in the end the deliberate removal of e-cigarettes network. Because this is a new phenomefrom the market in this way is doomed to non and never seen before in the smoking / failure because of the way the black mar- nicotine / NRT / pharmaceutical field, it has ket will take over, and because the gov- not been identified and its importance has ernment will eventually have to force the not been recognised. However, it is a critidepartment involved to perform a U-turn cal component of the unique safety profile (which has happened before, of course, in of e-cigarettes and should beidentified. And note that PVs (e-cigarettes) do have countries such as the US and UK).
When 6 million people are using the black market to get safe products to stay alive, unjust laws cannotsurvive; a huge black market servicing just half that number of people would probably be impossible for the UK government to ignore and continue pretending that the law is “for thegood of the people” rather than purely for commercial benefit. With around 1 million ecig users in the UK at Q2 2013, it is inevitable that by the time such regulations could be introduced there would be 3 million or so.