Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Eric Joyce (Independent (affiliation)), on Wednesday, 4 June 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 15 members in total.

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ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES

That this House notes the opinion of leading world public health experts, including Professor Robert West of University College, London, that e-cigarettes have the potential to save hundreds of millions of lives across the world; believes that, if regulators treat low-risk nicotine products as traditional tobacco products, they are improperly defining them; regrets the decision of the EU to regulate e-cigarettes in strange and contradictory ways and believes that such inappropriate constraints upon the labelling and sale of e-cigarettes will have the perverse effect of reducing the rate at which cigarette use is declining; further notes the potentially enormous health benefits that e-cigarettes could bring to developing nations; accepts the health and economic benefits which e-cigarettes can bring to the least well-off; urges public authorities to regard e-cigarettes as a positive and not as an equivalent to cigarettes; and further urges the Government to impress upon the World Heath Organisation that encouraging, rather than discouraging, e-cigarette manufacture, sale and use will bring great health benefits across the world.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES (6A1)

The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Lord Field of Birkenhead (primary, Labour) and tabled on Sunday, 29 June 2014. It has been signed by 1 members in total.

after 'House', insert 'welcomes the non-cancerous intake of nicotine through e-cigarettes; urges the Government to licence e-cigarettes only in respect to the strength of the nicotine that can be drawn down;'.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

6 

6A1 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Lord Brady of Altrincham

Jeremy Corbyn

John Leech

Mary Glindon

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Health education Smoking

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk