I hope you are right because I've already seen them effectively make 2-strokes illegal and bring in a load of BS regarding motorcycles year after year for the last 15 years, not to mention the increasing amounts of ethanol in petrol.
I have a horrible feeling this is just the start of our problems with this and I just can't feel that relaxed about it.
The big difference regarding vaping is that the governments own health organisations are largely stating that vaping is far preferable to smoking based on detailed, but preliminary research. The research is, almost literally as we speak, being carried out at a terrific rate. Once the MHRA research has confirmed to be correct 376 times the government will have zero grounds for regulating vaping into obscurity.
Again thinking for the long term, Britain is slightly different to some of our other counterparts in that we have a state funded NHS. The NHS is under increasing pressure and after aforementioned research has confirmed the inevitable it would become clear that tens of millions of lost tax £ from smokers switching to vaping would be re couped from NHS savings in smoking related disease.
It's a waiting game is all. This is just the EU trying to broadside the industry. Mild regulation is not always a bad thing, and the U.K. could have had it much worse. The fact that the government has taken a comparatively light touch compared to some other member states is a clear statement of intent in my opinion.
Then there's the referendum. Article 20 is now written into law. Fact. However, should the uk decide to leave Europe we would be under no obligation to further carry out any EU instruction that has not yet been fully intergrated. The referendum is June, start date for the TPD is a month prior, but the two more important dates are November then May next year.
And should we leave, any government that stood to gain 3 million voters worth of backing should they decide to mostly leave us be, save for minor regulation, would be making a wise move indeed.
