About TSS (The Smokeless Society) Supporters

TSS Supporters represent the views of those who:

1. Are concerned at the impact, influence, and effect of public nicotine inhalation on public health.

2. Believe in the principle that tobacco and e-cigarettes should be kept out of sight and not widely advertised or publicly displayed, as has been happening recently with e-cigarettes.

In particular TSS Supporters are concerned that the public inhalation of nicotine, by either smoking tobacco or 'vaping' electronic cigarettes, together with the widespread and misleading marketing of electronic cigarettes, and nicotine, as being ‘harmless’, will:

1. Encourage children and young people to start a lifetime of smoking or ‘vaping’ – with disastrous health consequences.

2. Encourage ex-smokers to return to nicotine inhalation and 'vaping' – again with disastrous health consequences.

In addition, the inhalation of nicotine, by either smoking tobacco or ‘vaping’ electronic cigarettes in public, subjects others, who prefer not to be so reckless with their health, to the secondary inhalation of a wide range of undetermined pollutants that are created by these activities.

TSS Supporters are concerned that any regulation that might be applied to electronic cigarettes currently seems to be largely in the hands of two very vocal self-interest groups, having a common interest - the suppliers, and the consumers; with little or no input being sought from the non-smokers and those who have direct personal experience of the typically very negative, and tragic, health consequences of a lifetime of nicotine inhalation.

TSS Supporters are in broad agreement with the following statement issued by the British Medical Association in January 2013 regarding e-cigarettes:

The Framework Convention On Tobacco Control is the world's first global public health treaty and now more than 170 countries have become signatories/parties to the convention. TSS Supporters fully support the initiatives and principles embodied in the 2005 Framework Convention On Tobacco Control (FCTC) - particularly regarding the bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, sponsorship, display, and the introduction of plain packaging - and believe that electronic cigarettes should be similarly controlled and regulated.

TSS Supporters strongly advocate the principle that "the best way to stop smoking is to never start smoking in the first place", as embodied in the code of the Smokeless Society:

"Don't smoke"

"Don't smoke in public"

"Don't encourage others to smoke"

TSS Supporters assert the right to be identified as the author(s) of the website work embodied in www.thesmokelessspociety.org, in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.

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