Ms Claire Gordon:

Definitely. The key measure in it with regard to e-cigarettes is the banning of their sale to under-18s. It will be illegal to sell any of these products to a person who is under 18. The number one effort is to remove from the table the ability of those under 18 to buy the product legally.

The licensing system is another matter. At the moment one does not need to register or to have a licence to sell e-cigarettes. We are going to have a full licensing system whereby one has to fill out a form to get a licence every year. This will involve showing that one is a true and fit person, and there will be a fee. The impact of licensing e-cigarette retailing can be seen in data from Pennsylvania. When a licence was introduced there, the use of e-cigarettes among adolescents went down. One of the features of introducing licences, and it is the same for tobacco cigarettes, is that some people get out of the business because it is no longer profitable. If the licence is of a sufficiently high price, if there is much paperwork and if certain obligations have to be met, if it was an-----