February 2021: United Kingdom
Consultation Response
My brief response to UK consultation on the regulations implementing the Tobacco Products Directive. See my response here – a PDF print-out of my responses to the online consultation.
My main concern is that the government doesn’t seem to have done an evaluation of its own, even though possible harmful perverse consequences of these regulations were obvious from the outset. They were even flagged in the government’s own 2016 ‘Impact Assessment” for the regulations – a subject I blogged about in 2016: E-cigarette impact assessment exposes useless and illegal policy