The EU should back off from legislation that brackets a nicotine-only
delivery system with tobacco (which delivers nicotine with poisonous
and carcinogenic elements).
Their proposals play into the hands of the tobacco industry and their
lobbyists, who love to portray anti-smoking groups as fundamentalists
out to stop anything passing the lips of the public that may not be
totally beneficial.
As liberals, we should have no issue with people consuming an element
when it harms no-one else but themselves – which is the precise
function that e-cigarettes perform, and completely different to actual
cigarettes (despite what the tobacco industry shills over at Liberal
Vision would have you believe).
If there is a need to legislate them both, then it should be by means
of colour coding so it is obvious from a distance whether a person is
consuming an e-cigarette or the real thing. And that’s it.
Their proposals play into the hands of the tobacco industry and their lobbyists, who love to portray anti-smoking groups as fundamentalists out to stop anything passing the lips of the public that may not be totally beneficial.
As liberals, we should have no issue with people consuming an element when it harms no-one else but themselves – which is the precise function that e-cigarettes perform, and completely different to actual cigarettes (despite what the tobacco industry shills over at Liberal Vision would have you believe).
If there is a need to legislate them both, then it should be by means of colour coding so it is obvious from a distance whether a person is consuming an e-cigarette or the real thing. And that’s it.