What is the effect of such a ban on eliquid and vaping?

There will be several effects, among which are:

1. The single biggest threat to public health ever created by government will come into effect. Millions of e-cigarette users in Europe (there are over 500,000 just in the UK) will be driven back to smoking, or to buy their supplies on the black market.

2. The pharmaceutical and tobacco industries will be protected from a serious threat to their incomes.

3. Government employees in the EU and UK whose jobs would have been threatened by falling pharma drug sales and falling treatment levels for sick and dying smokers, and also those employed in the useless smoking cessation services [1], will now have security of employment.

4. Prices of e-cigarette supplies will rise as vendors will either have to close up shop or go offshore. They may also try to fight the ban at law, which means huge expenditure and thus higher prices.

5. The MHRA will have a license to visit vendors, threaten staff, and even impound stocks at vendor's premises on the pretext of enforcing the law (even where no nicotine-containing liquids are sold). This applies to both high street vendors and web-based vendors with a UK office or UK-hosted website. If premises are in EU countries or websites are hosted in EU countries, the MHRA will ask colleagues in those countries to carry out the enforcement action.

6. Trading Standards will be encouraged to take similar action.

7. Legitimate tax income will be removed from the UK.

8. The health impact of non-UK tested liquids also needs to be taken into account. Currently, we know that no e-liquid sold in the UK is contaminated (as it is fully regulated by Trading Standards, who test and analyse it). That safety system will now cease