(June 24, 2016 at 4:17 pm)madog Wrote:(June 24, 2016 at 4:03 pm)Losty Wrote: It's possible that we need a new thread for this, being that in all honesty vaping has nothing to do with the U.K. leaving the EU. But I'm curious about this...what counts as established grounds?
These are the actual grounds, included in the Directive, for the ban ....
"Therefore, it is necessary to approximate the national provisions on advertising and sponsorship of those
products having cross-border effects, taking as a base a high level of protection of human health. Electronic
cigarettes can develop into a gateway to nicotine addiction and ultimately traditional tobacco consumption, as they mimic and normalize the action of smoking. For this reason, it is appropriate to adopt a restrictive approach to advertising electronic cigarettes and refill containers."
Even those that were originally hostile such as Ash and many national health services, including the NHS have since refuted this and given substantial evidence that it is rare for none smokers to take up vaping ....
At the time the EU made the claim to warrant the exception to Art,10 there wasn't any figures, so even if later figures had have supported the EU, which they don't, they still breached Art.10 as the grounds were not "Established" when they made the directive ...
No, what are the established legal grounds for banning an advertisement or for restricting free speech?
