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Contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs and Oppose the Directive now!

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Please visit the following link http://www.writetothem.com/ and write to your local government opposing THIS directive http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/docs/com_2012_788_en.pdf








Action needs to be taken NOW by everyone who uses electronic cigarettes and personal vaporisers! Let our voices be HEARD!


Don't forget to sign the ECITA Petition located here http://www.petitiononline.com/fr33dom/petition.html


Tweet them on twitter as well!
https://twitter.com/European_Union


https://twitter.com/EU_Commission




Email the PM
https://email.number10.gov.uk





Check out the Video by VTTV - Fast Forward to about 29 minutes!







ECCA have some useful pointers, and give details in their forum and Facebook Page.
www.facebook.com/groups/eccauk/doc/142948775776638/ - from the facebook group


At present this document is just a stub.


We will be working on getting a template letter ready for members to send to their MP's.


Once these are ready all you will have to do is customise it and send it.


The links below will help you find the contact information that you will need to send your letter to the relevant individual concerned


www.writetothem.com/
www.theyworkforyou.com/


docs.com/CC7O


have set up members of the ECCAUK group as viewers and editors


I've also started a presentation to serve as a step by step walk though of topics to concider to help find inspiration whilst crafting your own letters.


docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wAMqlp9t...J2lST_zj3WFJ_1A/edit


Also Clive Bates blog gives very good advice.
http://www.clivebates.com/?p=739


Watch yesterdays VTTV and follow the advice there.
Petitions can't do any harm but it needs 100,000 signatures on a UK petition to have any chance of it being raised.


The advice is to contact your MP and MEPs, write letters, not just emails and phone if possible. Best of all is to meet your representative but that seems hard to do, for mine at least.


I've sent emails seperately to all of my MEPs, I've telephoned their offices (most seem unaware of this Directive in this part of the UK), I'll follow up with snail mail, I've sent a second email to my MP and that will be followed by a registered snail-mail letter.
The more constituents make MPs and MEPs aware that this does concern them the better. The EU concluded that very few of the general public would object.
Especially in marginal seats vapers could decide if they keep their jobs!






Also here is a list of "Must Reads" that you can include to your MP's
ASH’s stand on electronic cigarettes,
http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_715.pdf


Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association (ECITA) - "French Study
Shows Significant Health Improvements For Smokers Using Electronic
Cigarettes" http://www.ecita.org.uk/blog/?p=382


Acute effects of using an electronic nicotine-delivery device (e-cigarette)
on myocardial function: comparison with the effects of regular
cigarettes http://www.escardio.org/about/press...nts/presentations/konstantinos-farsalinos.pdf


Indoor Air Quality
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/08958378.2012.724728


Effects on desire to smoke, withdrawal symptoms and
cognition http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460312000913


The Guardian - "No Smoke Without Ire"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/05/e-cigarettes-tobacco-harmless-enjoyable


TIME - Business & Money - "Can electronic Cigarettes Challenge Big
Tobacco"http://business.time.com/2013/01/08/can-electronic-cigarettes-challenge-big-tobacco/


Trust of Medical Volunteers, Betrayed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21066261




BBC Radio Interview with ASH Spokeswoman Jan 18th 2013
http://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/f...terview-with-ASH-Spokewoman?p=73018#post73018


ECCA UK Employers and E-Cigs Printable
http://www.eccauk.org/images/Employers-and-Ecigarettes.pdf
 
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Elux
There's a lot of useful stuff here. I signed the petition but I'll get on with writing emails and letters asap.
 
AcmeFog
I wrote to every single one of my council MEPs and not one even bothered to acknowledge or reply to me!
 
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I wrote to my MP (labour ) & she said she agreed with regulation and her main concern was gateway to smoking for young people. Usual crap reason. I have yet to see a kid smoking in town where I live. Wish they did as I see lots smoking.
 
Fuck my local MP shes friggin worse than useless, who is it; bloody justine greening, it'll be a waste of time..
 
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