NEW Brussels rules to ensure electronic cigarettes can be sold as freely as their tobacco alternatives have been welcomed by East Lancashire Euro-MP Chris Davies.
Overruling national governments, the European Parliament defeated proposals to classify e-cigarettes as medicines.
Instead, they insisted that e-cigarettes with a nicotine content of 20mg/l or under should be regarded as consumer products.
Liberal Democrat Mr Davies said the new rules bring e-cigarettes, produced by a number of East Lancashire firms, into the mainstream of business.
He said: “This is a compromise that won’t please everyone, but it'’s a huge improvement on the e-cig ban that was threatened.
“We don't yet know the long term consequences of using e-cigs, but it must be likely they will be healthier than tobacco.”
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