Small local businesses are springing up globally to supply
vapers with electronic cigarettes, who commonly believe they are a superior
nicotine delivery system to smoking, cheaper and with no discernable health
effects. Indeed there is increasing research suggesting nicotine may help manage
anger and depression, aid cognitive abilities, delay dementia and alzheimers,
and suppress some stomach conditions. Indeed a variation on the theme of
nicotine - niacin, is currently added to breakfast cerials as a food supplement.
Global tobacco corporations are losing billions as huge
numbers of smokers switch to vaping, and are seeking to regulate the e cig
industry so as to corner the entire market and put small bizz out of bizz.
The pharmacutical industry is losing billions as people scorn
nicotine gum and patches, and is seeking to have e cigs described as a medicine
so as to corner the entire e cig market.
The NHS is in terror of e cigs becoming a medicine as they
would have to make them available on prescription, and so they would like the
technology be stripped of any sign of pleasure.
The global tax men are losing billions in tax receipts.
Someone is else is going to have to cough.
Brussels is an unholy scrum right now, with billions of Euros,
sterling and every other currency in Europe on the table, everyone is going in
hard and fast. There are two things you can be sure of, no one is thinking about
millions of vaper's health, and small businesses will not make it to troff. This
is very likely to be a contender for one of the uglier episodes in the history of the
EU.
Meanwhile people who professionally or passionately dislike and
legislate against smoking, are struggling to come to terms with people enjoying
nicotine without health implications. Will tea drinkers allow vaping at the
table, or will they be sent outside into increasingly disappearing permissive
smoking zones with the smokers?
