Why you need to join ECCA UK
Why should you join ECCA, and why should you volunteer to help?
- Do you care if the Department of Health bans e-cigarettes in the UK, and all UK vendors have to shut down or move to another EU country?
- Do you care if the EU issues a directive banning e-cigarettes in Europe (as they successfully did with Snus), and all e-cigarette vendors have to shut down or move to Norway, Switzerland or Russia?
- Do you care that if that happens, the MHRA will probably be able to block posted-in packages containing e-cigarettes, parts and e-liquid, so you will not be able to get your supplies from anywhere including from (and especially from) China? [1]
- Do you care if your doctor says, "Vaping is just as bad as smoking" - because he has no real facts about electronic cigarettes and believes all the propaganda?
- Do you care if you cannot vape in local pubs or venues because they know nothing about e-cigs and think that vaping is the same as smoking?
- Do you care about what you will be inhaling in large quantities for the next few decades?
- Do you care that nobody except ECCA will have the influence to persuade vendors to listen to consumer demands?
- Do you care if the police stop you and confiscate your PV because it looks as if you are inhaling illegal substances?
Well - if you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you need to join ECCA and volunteer to help - because nobody else is going to do anything about it.
You need to join ECCA UK because nobody else will speak out against the corruption in UK and EU government. Nobody else will bring up the tens of thousands of UK citizens a year (up to 40,000) killed by the EU ban on Snus. Nobody else will speak out about the similar number (or more) that will eventually be killed by a ban on free consumer availability of e-cigarettes.
You need to volunteer your help because ECCA cannot magically create change - the work is done by volunteers.
Only ECCA cares.
ECCA is you. You are ECCA
[1] In the week beginning Oct 10th 2011, the MHRA started a coordinated series of raids and confiscations of mailed-in packages containing 'unlicensed pharmaceuticals', i.e. what e-cigarettes will be if either the UK or the EU ban them. This showed they are both willing and able to stop posted-in materials they consider to be unlicensed medicines. You can be sure they will be very happy to apply that to e-cigs as soon as a ban is passed at either UK or EU level, as this is what the pharmaceutical industry are paying for. Don't think that you will still be able to get your supplies mailed in, packets from China will be very obvious candidates for opening.