EU News and Twitter Bomb December 17th -> #FreeVape and #EUvapesON (More news in the comments!)

Tonight the updates comes in comment in this post!

https://www.facebook.com/events/260919524059512/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

Premade tweets:
http://pastebin.com/P9EpQ6BQ

New and tough EU standards on tobacco products to protect youth
http://eppgroup.eu/press-release/EU-standards-on-tobacco-products-to-protect-the-youth

Tabakprodukte werden strenger reguliert - zum Schutz der Jugend
http://www.karl-heinz-florenz.de/pressemitteilung.cfm?id=446

E-cig legislation - cutting through the confusion
http://officeofchrisdaviesmep.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/j/F85AF8D7F8C5649A/B39C227C664CEF0AC5EC08CADFFC107B

MEP database: who's pro and con in the EP
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avl3D6yfv0hpdG13NElzMy1hc3QyMTNTUmQ0Ym52SkE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

The impact of flavors variability on e-cigarette experience
An online survey published in a medical journal
http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/research/145-e-cigarette-flavors

Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Refillable e-cigarettes under threat
http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.hu/2013/12/refillable-e-cigarettes-under-threat.html

UPDATED -  When we’ve decided, we’ll let you know: an update on nicotine negotiations in Brussels
http://www.clivebates.com/?p=1682

E-cigarette decision passed to member states - "However member states will be free to enact national bans on refillable e-cigarettes, as long as these bans can be justified"
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2013/december/e-cigarette-decision-kicked-to-member-states/79100.aspx

Rebecca Taylor's exposé is nice and clear but I'm suspicious. She says that cross border sales will be allowed by Article 16, but this is what Article 16 says: “Member States shall prohibit retail outlets established on their territory from engaging in cross border distance sales.”
http://libdemmeps.com/?p=1553

Here is the statement of the greens / Carl Schlyter:
http://www.greens-efa.eu/eu-tobacco-rules-11316.html


New Article from the renowned Norwegian researchers SIRUS and researcher Karl Erik Lund : " Can " precautionary principle " be used to ban electronic cigarettes ? "

Health authorities stated " precautionary " principle regarding e - cigarettes are fundamentally against their own stated objectives and tasks , and that health authorities are proving to be one of the health organizations whose attitude wants to stifle a historic opportunity to reduce morbidity through an inappropriate , unwarranted and unscientific stance !

" Probably would most of the 5,000 annual deaths caused by cigarette smoking in Norway have been avoided if the smokers' nicotine uptake instead had occurred from an electronic cigarette. "

".. Comparative Perspective have no doubt that e - cigarettes are dramatically less dangerous than conventional cigarettes. There is little uncertainty at this point, and the inflow of new research has reduced the uncertainty in more detail. "

" " If those young people are people who would have smoked but instead they're overusing e - cigarettes , then that's a huge public health gain. If they're people who would never have smoked but they've taken up e - cigarettes , frankly in public health terms it's not really an issue - it's like drinking coffee or something , there's no real risk Associated with it "

Do health authorities not want to help save lives and fewer people suffer from cruel tobacco-related injuries and illnesses through different types of cancer and heart damage ? Is health authorities' stance regarding the healthrevolutionary product e - cigarettes morally reprehensible and ethically indefensible ? (google trans)

http://www.forebygging.no/en/Artikler/2013-2012/Kan-fore-var-prinsippet-brukes-for-a-forby-elektroniske-sigaretter/