Hungarian vapers are asking for comments from the international scientific and academic community to evaluate the severely partial junk science produced by the Hungarian public health and tobacco control institutes.
The document below is the official report on the risks of vaping, created by Hungarian public health institutes related to tobacco control. It successfully biased public health decision makers and regulators to go way beyond the requirements outlined in the European Tobacco Products Directive Article 20, into banning online sales of vaping products, forcing all vendors to close shop by limiting brick-and-mortar sales to a limited amount of registered tobacconists, and banning vaping itself everywhere where smoking is prohibited, all in the name of protecting non-smokers from second hand vaping, and the youth from the gateway to smoking.
We have found that the report blatantly twists and cherry-picks evidence – ignoring the majority of the scientific literature – in order to support the prejudiced opinion of its creators, at the price of sacrificing effective tobacco harm reduction options of the public. We tried the official whistle-blowing channels and numerous Freedom of Information requests to discredit the contents of the report, to no avail. Soon we will be battling its creators and their twisted regulation before the National Court and the Constitutional Court of Hungary.
This translation is the Hungarian vaping community's effort to collect valuable expert opinions from the members of the international scientific and academic community working in the fields of vaping and tobacco harm reduction, on the scientific and factual accuracy of this report based on current scientific evidence, for the purpose of quoting during the court cases and in the media. Your input – no matter how brief it might be – could prove invaluable in our fight to place back vaping in Hungary where it belongs: to be a legal, effective, and informed choice based tobacco harm reduction option for anyone. Please forward your response to thr@stopspam.hu, preferably before 12 September 2016. Thank you for your help.
Download „The risks of using electronic cigarettes and electronic smoking imitation devices”.
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