For MPs to agree with the Royal College of Physician about e-cigarettes.

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

For MPS to sign Anne Mains early motion 1441, agreeing with the Royal College of Physicians that the EU TPD would significantly inhibit the use of harm-reduction products by smokers.

E-cigarettes are around 95 per cent less harmful than smoking, restricting advertising will have the perverse effect of reducing the rate at which cigarette use is declining. The total cost of smoking to society, including NHS, social care, lost productivity, litter and fires, was conservatively estimated to be around £14 billion per year; and calls on the Government to exclude e-cigarettes and other harm-reduction products from the TPD.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

This petition seems to be asking individual MPs to sign EDM 1441. That is a decision for individual MPs to make, not a decision for the House of Commons as a whole.

You could start a new petition asking the Government and Parliament not to transpose the TPD into UK law.

Timeline

5 May 2016	Petition opened for signatures
9 May 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 9 May 2016

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