Vapouround magazine Issue 03 | Page 61

F E AT U R E VAPOUROUND AT PARLIAMENT PHOTOS highlighting the role that e-cigarettes can play in helping people give up tobacco for good?” The Prime Minister: “Certainly, speaking as someone who has been through this battle a number of times, eventually relatively successfully, lots of people find different ways of doing it, and clearly for some people e-cigarettes are successful. We need to be guided by the experts, and we should look at the report from Public Health England, but it is promising that over 1 million people are estimated to have used e-cigarettes to help them quit or have replaced smoking with e-cigarettes completely. We should be making it clear that this is a very legitimate path for many people to improve their health and therefore health of the nation.” The general consensus being, that we are all fighting the same battle. We all want the vaping industry, which has seen exponential growth, to continue to flourish, helping people lead healthier lifestyles whilst encouraging businesses to be responsible vendors. A post-TPD landscape could see regulations make small businesses untenable, which is why we must all put on a united front and champion the benefits of vaping at all levels and at every opportunity. VAPOUROUND MAGAZINE ISSUE 03 61