News digest – e-cigarettes, childhood leukaemia, skin implants and more

To all those that don’t believe natural treatments for cancer can work what about the new treatment for prostate cancer. Which the drugs companies aren’t interested in because there’s not enough money in it. Celia

Cancer Research UK is determined to reduce deaths from smoking-related cancers and there’s a lot of potential for e-cigarettes to help reduce the devastating impact of tobacco,

electronic cigarettes

“Costs and burdens of medicines regulation for e – cigarettes”

Very informative report by eminent individuals ( Clive Bates & professor Gerry Stimson ) here;

http://nicotinepolicy.net/documents/reports/Impacts%20of%20medicines%20regulation%20-%2020-09-2013.pdf

Their conclusions;

We conclude that medicines regulation for e-cigarettes will:

Destroy the existing supply chain and most businesses
Create a de facto ban on most products
Make e-cigarettes harder to buy than tobacco cigarettes
Favour the cigarette industry
Induce significant legal risk
Create high and unnecessary barriers to entry for firms and products.

In short, medicines regulation focuses on creating a better medicinal product, whereas the public health is served by having better alternatives to cigarettes.

With such views coming from people with such impeccable credentials it is indefensible for CRUK to remain silent and maintain a position that will cause many thousands of deaths.

ALL EXISTING PRODUCTS WILL BE BANNED.

CRUK, stop and think, do the right thing

Hello Kat

If all the 10m smokers in the UK suddenly stopped exposing themselves to tobacco smoke, it would result in approx 2-3m less cancer cases over the next 20 years.

Would that result in a significant reduction of overall cancer rates?

Kat
Firstly non of the people that I know who have died of cancer were old. Secondly Government figures in the year 2000 showed one in ten people would get cancer in their lifetime. And its rubbish about life style choices when chemical farming is one of the biggest causes of cancer. And it doesn’t seem as though more people are getting cancer, they are!! So please don’t give me platitudes.

So CRUK will answer a query from someone who clearly cannot do the most basic of research, but you continue to ignore the hundreds of comments on your blog regarding the e-cigs.

Remember, if you get your way ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS WILL BE BANNED.

Stop and think, do the right thing

Three German courts today ruled that e-cigs are not medicines, this now means that there have been 7 court cases in Europe with the same outcome – e-cigs are not medicines.

So why do CRUK support a policy that tries to make them a medicine?.

If you get your way ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS WILL BE BANNED. Stop and think, do the right thing

E cigs are not medicines, according to a ruling by a German court today. Good news for vapers I think.

With new studies about electronic cigarettes coming out almost weekly it seems I believe CRUK should reassess its position on electronic cigarettes.

They are at least as effective as patches and health effects are 100-500 times less harmful as tobacco.

They help 57% of people reduce tobacco use: http://cigelectric.co.uk/electronic-cigarettes-help-57-of-users-reduce-cigarette-smoking/

Its time CRUK got behind electronic cigarettes and oppose the over regulation suggested by the MHRA.

E-cigarettes have the potential to save millions of lives. This technology needs to be supported, not over regulated.

“There’s a lot of potential for e-cigarettes to help reduce the devastating impact of tobacco”

– Alison Cox, Cancer Research UK

Well, at least we can all agree on that particular statement.

Why then, do you want to BAN ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS?

Well worth repeating

ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS WILL BE BANNED

ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS WILL BE BANNED

CRUK, it is not a complicated statement, it has been confirmed by Jeremy Mean, MRHA. It will cause millions of people to move back to or continue to smoke tobacco.

And CRUK support this policy?, it’s a shameful state of affairs

As you approve of the MHRA licensing e cigs as medical products let me make you understand that ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS WILL BE BANNED. We have it in writing from the MHRA. The only products that will be allowed are metered flavourless sprays just like the current cessation devices. SMOKERS DON’T WANT THEM NOW AND WILL NOT WANT THEM IN FUTURE. E Cigs are NOT A CESSATION product. They are an ALERNATIVE to tocabbo smoking that is at least 100 times safer. Leave them alone of miss the most significant improvement in health for a century.

“Cancer Research UK is determined to reduce deaths from smoking-related cancers and there’s a lot of potential for e-cigarettes to help reduce the devastating impact of tobacco, which kills half its long term users. There are many unanswered questions about these products, so it’s crucial that they’re properly explored to understand their benefits and risks.”

E-cigarettes first started to become popular in 2008 – you’ve never really explained why you didn’t commission the research to answer the many unanswered questions.My research shows 1.3m users with no evidence of harm – why not let this miracle progress,unhindered by red tape?

“We covered the research” – well that is comforting! Read the following and perhaps you will refrain from publicising bad research in future.

http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/2013-04-07-09-50-07/131-basic-science-principles-60-millions-de-consommateurs3

All these reports are very interesting but please do tell us why in 1970 one in thirty people got cancer and now’s nearly one in two. The people of the world need to be told the truth about what has caused the increase in this terrible illness!! Reports say more and more people are surviving cancer but they keep very quiet about the fact that more people than ever before are getting cancer! The only people than I know that have survived didn’t have aggressive forms of cancer. I have lost my husband, father, sister in law, father in law and many other more distant family members,my best friend and many people in the village to cancer!!