UK to leave EU

[madog]

[...]As a vaper, I have been fighting a directive that blatantly violates Art.10 of the ECHR by banning the freedom of expression (speech) of electronic cigarette users ... If they can do it to vapers to save Big Tobacco they can do it to anyone 

[...]Note I am a smoker not a vaper, and I am only concerned with the advertising ban ....

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Hmmm... Am I missing something? 

I was a vaper when I noticed the the advertising ban .... I took two nations through the ECHR without lawyers so studied for many years the case-law and the principles that were trying to be achieved ...

ANY blatant infringement on "freedom of expression" (speech) concerns me .... even if I totally disagree with the minority voice being curbed ....

Again, many nations would like to curb advertising of condoms ... how else do you pass on a message of the positives of using them? Without advertising/promoting you need to rely on uniformed citizens ....

The point is the requirement that advertising bans should only be exempted from freedom of speech is with "Established" grounds, is to stop nations introducing legislation based on made up reasons that are actually hiding their real intent ...

I must say I have been very disappointed by the response so far and have probably reacted incorrectly through that disappointment ....