You have signed the petition, please continue to SPREAD the word and respond to the public European Commission consultation if you haven't yet ! Responding is very important because : Vaping has helped more than 7.5 million Europeans stop smoking and a further 9 million to cut down. If vaping is made expensive smokers will not switch and vapers will go back to smoking. - Making vaping more expensive will keep people smoking. - Taxing vaping makes people think vaping is as harmful as smoking. - There is no case on principled or practical grounds to apply excise duties to vaping products which offer a much safer alternative to smoking. - The value to health and wellbeing associated with switching from smoking to vaping exceeds any benefits arising from revenue collection. - VAT is the only acceptable form of taxation on vaping products. - Taxing vaping products ultimately protects smoking. - Vape products are not tobacco products and do not belong in the Tobacco Excise Directive. Tell the EU what you think, by responding to the consultation : https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/public-consultation-excise-duties-applied-manufactured-tobacco-and-possible-taxation-novel-products_en Answering the consultation questionnaire: 1 The questionnaire is available in all the EU languages, select your language at the top right 2 Answer using your own words 3 If you don't know the answer to something please reply with "I don't know" 4 If you choose not to answer the questions on conventional tobacco products the questionnaire should only take around ten minutes 5. At the end there is an option to upload a document – responses carry more weight if they are more personal, so feel free to go into more detail.

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