Mirage Electronic Cigarettes - Newquay Cornwall

Newly opened, Mirage Electronic Cigarettes has already become Newquay's number one vaping retailer.
They have a wide range of kits, tanks and juices alike, as well as batteries, chargers, and even safety charging bags.

The stock is all UK tested for both quality and safety, offering peace of mind with purchases.
I purchased a 50ml bottle of Amber menthol, and began vaping it straight away. . .  and am still vaping it. With a strong menthol flavour, it is both cool and refreshing.

The owner of the shop is well educated on the industry, and is always on hand to offer advice and help.

There is a sampling corner where you can freely try all the flavours on offer, so it is pretty much guaranteed that you will get the correct juice that works for you.

A loyalty card is also on offer, which receives a stamp whenever you make a purchase. Once the card is full, you will receive some e-juice free of charge.

I highly recommend paying them a visit.

www.miragecigarettes.co.uk

Fore Street Newquay (opp: The Fort Pub).

08454750148

They also offer a free delivery service on all online purchases over £40

THIS IS AS URGENT AS IT GET PEOPLE . . .

URGENT: NEW YORK STATE TRYING TO BAN E-LIQUID SALES TO ADULTS!

As a customer of ours, we try to not overfill your email inbox with messages. However, we knew you would be interested to know that a critical vote will be taking place in the New York State Assembly very soon on a bill that would ban the sale of e-liquid to adults in the State of New York! 

No, you did not read that wrong. Prohibitionists in the New York Senate want to make it a crime for a business to sell e-liquid to New York adults. This bill has already passed the New York State Senate and needs to be stopped either in the Assembly or by getting Governor Cuomo to veto it. 

As a company, we believe that electronic cigarettes are a smarter alternative for smokers to traditional cigarettes.  We oppose measures that would punish adult consumers for making that smarter choice. We hope you would take this opportunity to educate your lawmakers that e-liquid products are a positive both for the New York economy and the welfare of smokers looking for an alternative.

As a consumer of electronic cigarettes, you know better than most that these products are NOT tobacco, are NOTHING like combustible cigarettes, and that cost and full access to them are important to you.  YOUR story must be heard by the legislators to make positive change, so make sure your voice is heard!

HOW YOU CAN HELP STOP THIS BAN

(1) Call or E-Mail Your New York Assembly Rep. IMMEDIATELY

We need vapers to immediately call or e-mail their New York State Assembly representative and ask them to vote NO on Bill A09309.  Please respectfully let them know that you are a user of vaporizing products, that you vote, and that you will be looking to see how they vote on this bill. Furthermore, let them know that this will ban tens of thousands of e-cigarette products and put 100+ businesses in the State of New York out of business almost immediately.

Find out who represents you easily by going to this page on the New York State Assembly’s website.

Please note that phone calls will have the most impact.  This vote could come at any time so please act ASAP!

(2) Call or E-mail Governor Cuomo and Ask Him to Oppose the E-Liquid Ban

Please call Governor Cuomo at (518) 474-8390 or message him using this webform to ask him to publicly OPPOSE enactment of A09309 or S06939 for the same reasons as listed above.

This is the biggest threat that has faced vaping nationwide in several years. New Yorkers need to take action NOW to save this industry, its current consumers, and smokers who one day might switch to vapor products.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

A THIRD CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL US VAPERS

CASAA is one of the best organizations around for protecting our rights to vape. To a such degree vapers in other countries wish they had an equivalent organization representing them. With that said when CASAA says they need your help, please do so. At present the number of respondents is low so this is critical that you get involved.http://blog.casaa.org/2014/06/third-call-to-action-for-fda-proposed.html

If you think it's okay to shine this off, I want you all to take a look ... 

• At what your vaping with right now
• What devices you are using
• What flavors you like
• What strengths (MG) you are using
• What atomisers you are using
• And how many choices you have with all of the above currently through online and local vape shops

Then go to your local drugstore, supermarket etc .. take a look at the e-cig offerings. That will be your choices if this deeming FDA regulation goes through. You will be lucky to find anything as high as 18mg in a prefilled cartridge, and your flavor choices will be either Tobacco or Menthol... yeah reality sucks :(

With that said they will be marketed in a way that puts cigarettes over vaping, and with lower strengths that will help keep you from replacing cigarettes permanently with vaping. At the prices they charge, vaping will no longer be a way to save money.

This isn't fear mongering... this will be the reality of doing nothing, and we all will face it. Big Pharma & Big Tobacco both need you to continue smoking, that is how they make money... and vaping unravels that. Once in full control of the market you will be at there mercy, and at the mercy of the politicians both industries have bought off. Of which there are many, we all know how that goes.

Please do get involved and help CASAA with this before it's too late!!! http://blog.casaa.org/2014/06/third-call-to-action-for-fda-proposed.html

Public Policy Analysis of how the EU elections will effect vaping in the EU

The following is a brief analysis of how the EU elections and the resulting shocks to the majority parties will effect Vapor Politics in the EU.  The document was drafted by Peter Becket, a PR and lobbying professional who does a lot of work for EU vaping organizations and companies.  I had the pleasure of getting to know Peter at the SFATA conference and find him to be intelligent, knowledgable and experienced in the vaping industry.  Our EU cousins should pay particular attention to Peter's comments as they may give you guidance on what paths politically will be most fruitful.

Dear all,

Following the recent elections for the European Parliament, I thought that I would give my take on what this could mean for the vapour business. I hope that this summary is helpful and please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have questions, comments or ideas.

Composition of the new Parliament

As you may have heard, the new Parliament is made up of a far larger number of anti-EU and far left/right parties. As a result, the main groups on the left (Socialists, Communists and Greens) or right (Christian democrats, Liberals, Conservatives) cannot form a majority on their own (see here for possible voting combinations). As such, getting the majority required to pass primary or secondary legislation will require the two sides to work together, making the passage of new laws extremely difficult. Gridlock is very likely to ensue.

This matters because under the tobacco Directive, the Commission must propose secondary legislation on e-cigarettes, including the specification of data that will be required in the product notification (essentially a product standard) and the specifics of a mechanism for 'leak free refilling. Once the Commission has made these proposals Parliament will have to approve them, and interested MEPs will be courted by the Commission as they are drafted.

This is an opportunity for industry to have its plans considered more seriously as compromise proposals, but in order to do so alignment and constructive ideas on international product standards will be needed.

Incoming/outgoing MEPs

Many of the most vocal supporters of e-cigarettes in Parliament have lost their seats or resigned. The British Liberal Democrats have been all but wiped out (going from 12 seats to just one) and with them Chris Davies, Rebecca Taylor, Bill Newton Dunn and Phil Bennion -some of the critical influencers who helped get the medicinal route dismissed. Martin Callanan, who worked on the Directive for the UK Conservatives and was also supportive, has also lost his seat, as has his colleague Marina Yiannakoudakis. Some close supporters like Renata Sommer still remain.

This means that, over the coming months, we will need to build new alliances and find new supporters within each of the political groups and Committees. This will require a sustained effort in terms of making our arguments in a logical and coherent way once the new Parliament takes office in July.

Next steps

Given that many of our most vocal supporters in the Parliament have lost their seats, the industry will need to work hard to win over new allies in its drive for bespoke and workable product standards that are technology neutral and encourage innovation. We will need to identify allies, send briefing materials and arrange meetings explaining the situation with the tobacco Directive as soon as the new MEPs take their seats in July.

In November, a new Commission will be appointed and this will have an impact on how the executive and its agencies handle the implementation of the tobacco Directive. I will update the group on rumours and speculation as this date comes near.

The Vaping Independent Retail initiative

In an effort to reach the EFVI‘s 1,000,000 signature requirement EU wide, a new FB page has been set up exclusively for EFVI- supportive vendors and a few of the EFVI-UK admin team . It is a central location where independent specialist retailers can share information regarding support of EFVI (European Free Vaping Initiative) activities. Have a Dodo Box? A sign in your window? You can tell other retailers what’s working for your company to gain new signatures.

The main purpose of VIRI is to share information and to help make the EFVI campaign more effective. This can never be a bad thing, considering how important EFVI is.

There are presently 61 in this closed group from all parts of the EU , if this number could exceed 250+, it could then possibly evolve into far more than just a supportive vendor discussion group.
 Would a European Vaping Retailers Association be something achievable, viable or desirable ?

If all our European Vendors could just take a look to see how they can get involved, I know many of you are just on-line retailers, but even just sending out a card with each order, or a banner on your website would be a great help.

Not all vapers use forums and the likes, and many may still not be aware of the upcoming legislation that will affect their right to smoke healthier.

Please click here for details - http://vapemestoopid.co.uk/the-vaping-independent-retailers-initiative-viri/

Topic: European Free Vaping Initiative - MUST SIGN

SIGN IT AND GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO SIGN IT



A call to action: Save vaping!

Hold onto our civil rights!

While the result of the trilogue between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, concluded on the 16th of December saved electronic cigarettes from some of the direct threats, it still does contain too many loopholes and poorly elaborated conclusions that may (and most probably will) endanger the future of vaping on national levels as well as on a European level.

If something, then the cumbersome conciliations over the past year clearly display that the matter of electronic cigarettes is of as much importance as tobacco products themselves, therefore solving the issue of e-cigarettes on the margin of TPD is far from being sufficient. We will keep fighting until electronic cigarettes are finally to be discussed at the level they deserve, and until a regulation is born that says no to fears rooted in ignorance, and does not bypass scientific evidence nor the real needs of the people using electronic cigarettes.

Our goal is to express the will of the many, who are already vaping, plan to vape, have a loved one who is vaping or someone who simply respects the values of private sphere and personal rights.

Vapers made an adult, responsible and private decision when they chose this young but very effective alternative that made possible for them to leave or ease up a deadly habit that claims hundreds of thousands of lives of EU citizens each and every year. The fact that vaping poses no harm to the vicinity of the vaper makes this hobby a private matter of no public interest, therefore any kind of attempt towards the regulation of electronic cigarettes and related products is interpreted as serious offense against our personal rights and private sphere.

If the European Parliament intends to get involved in the matters of vaping, the rational choice would be support and promotion and not restriction.

The message is simple and clear: hands off of free vaping in the European Union. Read more about it in our manifesto.

Our weapon of choice is the European Citizens' Initiative, a mechanism provided by the EU that allows its concerned citizens to express their common opinion on how the European Parliament should approach certain subjects, in this case: vaping.

About EFVI

What is EFVI?

An opportunity for vapers to directly address the decision makers of Europe so they can choose to ignore our opinion no more. We need to collect one million signatures before the 25th of November 2014, and reach the minimum quota in seven member states.

What EFVI is not

EFVI is not an another petition to sign. It allows us to participate directly in the development of EU policies regarding electronic cigarettes.

Why is EFVI important?
Once successfully concluded, we will have the opportunity to meet Commission representatives in person and to present our initiative at a public hearing in the European Parliament.   

Welsh Minister Confirms It's Never Been About Health

He may, to borrow a phrase, have the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk and the analytical thinking skills of a mackerel, but I suppose I should be thanking this creature today.

You see, he has helped to categorically prove my long-held assertion that smoking bans have never, ever, had anything whatsoever to do with health.

From the BBC:

Wales could be the first part of the UK to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in enclosed public places. 

Ministers say they are responding to concern that the devices - which can contain nicotine - normalise smoking and undermine the smoking ban.

Health Minister Mark Drakeford (that's him up there - DP) said the aim was to address some of the nation's major public health challenges. 

"I have concerns about the impact of e-cigarettes on the enforcement of Wales' smoking ban. That's why we are proposing restricting their use in enclosed public places."

Concerns? Have you any proof, Mark, that e-cigs have any impact at all on enforcement? Wouldn't that be a prerequisite for installing illiberal legislation? Because I'm damned if I've ever read an article, anywhere, describing even one instance.

"I am also concerned that their use in enclosed public places could normalise smoking behaviour."

Err, wasn't the smoking ban solely and exclusively to prevent the huge piles of barmaids' bodies piled up in every town centre of a weekend due to second-hand smoke? That is, after all, the only possible justification for stealing private property rights outside of a fascist dictatorship, isn't it? In fact, the onlyargument which every politician pointed to as he/she ripped the guts out of the British pub trade a few years ago.

Back then, we were told over and over again that it wasn't an attempt to force smokers to quit; not an attempt to interfere in freedom of choice. Oh no, nothing could be further from the truth! This was purely a health matter, and certainly not social engineering or pandering to the selfish, intolerant and anti-social in society.

Has there been a load of debate today about how harmful second-hand e-cig vapour is to pub workers (who have no choice whatsoever but to work in a pub, of course)? Nope, not even a polite nod towards it. Was there even full and frank discussion about how people are dying from using e-cigs themselves? Well what do you think?

This would be because there is no smoking ban in the world which was designed to protect bar workers. Every single one was sold that way, yes, but was purely to bully and cajole smokers into quitting because 'public health' rent-seekers and politicians are nasty little control freaks who think they know what is best for us. Simples.

So thank you, Mark Drakeford, you lovely man, for giving us incontrovertible proof that it's not about health. When a policy is so ludicrous that even ban-friendly Guardian readers variously describe the proposer as muppet, twerp, paranoid, bonkers, idiot, dullard, plank and loon, it's clear that your fallacious reasoning is embarrassingly transparent and that the carefully-constructed lies have been rumbled.

Still, he's doing exactly as the unelected WHO has decreed for e-cigs so there'll probably be a generously-paid cushy job for him in the future. And that - not the public, not liberties and not wise governance - is the only thing which really interests modern politicians, isn't it?

UPDATE: This Drakeford guy is even more stupid than I first thought. Responding to the suggestion that banning vapers from using e-cigs indoors and instead banishing to the smoking area means they will encounter that horrid passive smoke, he came out with this!

"Of all the arguments that could be made against the idea of preventing the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces, I think that would be amongst the weakest I have ever heard. There is no obligation on anybody using an e-cigarette to go and use one next to someone using a conventional cigarette. They can use it anywhere else that they choose to use it. In their own homes, wherever else they might want to use it."