Dr. Axel Gietz:

I will continue if I may. I am quite happy to answer the questions of the Deputies who have left the room. I do not smoke. I do not want my children to smoke. I do not want anybody’s children to smoke, including Deputy Catherine Byrne’s children. I want to make that quite clear. We can bandy about numbers for Germany. The safest source to use is the German Government. I have the documentation here. It indicates that over the past ten years the underage smoking rate has gone down from 27.5% to 11.7%.

They must have done something right in an environment where point of sale advertising and billboard advertising is still permitted, where there are only text health warnings on 30% or 40% on the side of the pack, where cinema advertising is still permitted. Something else must have worked to-----