Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health

Ms Claire Gordon:

That area is slightly out of my bailiwick. All we can do is to say that cigarettes are not the answer to anything. We can do so through plain packaging, warnings, the horrible pictures on packets of tobacco cigarettes and the ban on advertising, as well as the constant stream of new information in respect of new harms associated with smoking that, thankfully, still gets into the media. That is all we can say. I do not know how to convince a person that cigarettes are-----

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