The Electronic Cigarette Company Challenges the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP to Ban All Tobacco Products on 21st June 2010

Why is the British government legislating in favour of Tobacco in their Flawed MLX 364 document?

BLACKBURN, England, March 11, 2010 - Will the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP Ban all Tobacco products on 21st June
2010?

The MHRA, the nation's Health regulators, have created for Mr. Burnham a
golden opportunity to ban ALL tobacco products in the UK for good on the 21st
June.

This would save 1 life every 6 minutes in the UK.

The MHRA's consultation paper, MLX 364, claims that every product
containing nicotine should be classed as a medicine, and should therefore
fall under their regulatory framework. In essence, they want to regulate for
only one reason — to ban Electronic Cigarettes.

The Electronic Cigarette's increasing popularity as an alternative
recreational nicotine delivery system seems to offend the MHRA's pay-masters:
the large pharmaceutical companies.

As an act of appeasement, they have cobbled together a seriously flawed
consultation document, MLX 364. This document attempts to class all nicotine
containing products - whether recreationally or medicinally used - as
medicines, and ban the lot on the 21st June.

Tobacco-based cigarettes do contain nicotine. Andy Burnham should ban
them while he has the chance.

There is no Tobacco law that states a cigarette or cigar cannot be
classed as a Nicotine Containing Product. It is, and it can. So why is
smoking tobacco being favoured over less harmful nicotine products?

Jason Cropper, Managing Director of "The Electronic Cigarette Company"
challenges the nation's Health Minister and heath regulators to explain to
the public why they want to ban Electronic Cigarettes that harm no one, yet
sanction and protect in the same policy document killer tobacco cigarettes.

This hypocrisy of this policy beggars belief.

Cropper says:

"The public is unaware that the revolutionary Electronic Cigarette, a
fantastic recreational nicotine delivery system, is to be banned on the 21st
of June." Cropper goes on to say: "Andy Burnham, Minister for Health, agrees
that it's safer to ban Electronic Cigarettes that have killed nobody since
their invention in 2003, yet he appears to be in cahoots with the MHRA, who
are actively regulating to save a product that kills 1 person every six
minutes in this country.

"It begs the question, WHY?

"It would appear that whoever pays the Piper gets rewarded: the MHRA
collects its revenues from the big pharmaceutical companies, and they get
rewarded with scandalous favoritism, said Cropper.

"Under this consultation process, our esteemed Health Minister, the Rt
Hon Andrew Burnham snubs his chance to save the lives of over 140 UK citizens
a day - from now till eternity - by excluding tobacco cigarettes in this new
legislation.

Electronic Cigarettes aren't the enemy - real cigarettes are.

Andy Burnham: you should throw MLX364 in the bin and save smokers from
being given only one deadly way of getting their recreational nicotine," said
Cropper.

    For More Information:

    www.totallywicked-eliquid.co.uk/products/electronic-cigarette-starter-kits-products.html
    www.mhra.gov.uk/Publications/Consultations/Medicinesconsultations/MLXs/CON065617
    www.dh.gov.uk/en/News/Speeches/DH_109450

Jason Cropper of The Electronic Cigarette Company , -+4401254-690938, pillbox3840 at yahoo.com