You don’t need to be a policy expert to make an impact. A personal, respectful message from a real constituent carries far more weight than a form letter.
1. Find Your Representatives: Look up the MEPs representing your country or region on the official European Parliament website, as well as your national Minister of Finance (who votes on TED) and Minister of Health (who oversees TPD3/TAD).
2. Tell Your Personal Story: Share how vaping helped you or someone you love quit smoking. Explain why flavors, open systems, or affordable pricing were essential to your success.
3. Make Three Clear Demands:
Bullet Oppose punitive excise taxes (TED) that treat safer alternatives like deadly cigarettes.
Bullet Reject flavor bans, online sales bans, and open-system bans (TPD3) that will fuel black markets and drive vapers back to smoking.
Bullet Demand transparency—insist that the European Commission does not bury public consultations over the Christmas holidays.
4. Share This Post on Social Media: Send this to fellow vapers, local vape shop owners, and friends who believe in personal freedom.
Don’t Let Them Decide Without You
Once TPD3, TAD, and TED are locked into EU law, it will take another decade to undo the damage. We still have a window to push back, support the member states standing up for common sense, and remind Brussels who they work for.