Consumers fail to make the Summit
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 18:58 Someone has posted an interesting link on the Friends of Forest Facebook page.
It takes you to a website entitled the E-Cigarette Summit 2013 at the Royal Society in London on November 12.
The E-Cigarette Summit will provide a timely opportunity for all stakeholders to debate and explore the future of E-cigarettes, and will include high level briefings from leading experts on safety and efficacy, public health and regulation. The morning briefings will be followed by moderated open floor discussions which will allow key questions to be asked and explored in a balanced and objective environment
All stakeholders?
Take a look at those speakers - Linda Bauld, Gerard Hastings, Deborah Arnott, Robert West and other tobacco control activists.
I may be wrong but I don't think there's a single consumer (smoker or vaper) on the list.
More to follow ...
Reader Comments (7)
Are we talking about THE Royal Society? You know, the one which was 'scientific', and concerned itself with REAL science, such as Faraday's experiments which showed that a changing magnetic field induced an electric current? When and how did advertising specialists take control of the Royal Society? It can only be that the Royal Society has suffered in the same way that the Church of England has suffered. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been replaced by Arnott.
Ah, the usual collection of leeches and parasites justifying their existence and making matters far worse. They should be renamed "The Counterfeiters Support Group".
What makes anyone think that consumers - whether of tobacco or e-cigs - would be invited to a conference to decide how they should be controlled in future? Smokers have never been consulted before and we have tried to tell vapers that the template would be used against them.
Clearly being "clean" and sterile isn't going to save them however much they play into the hands of antis and try to distance themselves from smokers by saying they are somehow "different"
You are right Simon - the thing we have in common is that smoker or vaper - we are both consumers of legitimate products that are easy to target and attack. Perhaps, at least, both sides can agree on that!
McAfee Threat Intelligence won't let me access the ecig summit website. Spooky.
Clive Bates is also one of the speakers. he seems to have become the vapers best friend...hmm.
The cast list for this production at the Royal Society (theatre) rather gives the game away, doesn't it?
You might describe as "A Tragedy In Two Acts". I wonder whom the producer and director are?
I don't trust Clive Bates. He backs E Cigs, in my honest opinion, because he can see the divide and conquer nature of how they can be used.
He is no friend of the consumer whether vaper or smoker so don't be fooled.