Ms Claire Gordon:

That is exactly right. Oddly, even though tobacco cigarettes seem like a more natural product, there are fewer toxins in e-cigarettes by quantity than in tobacco cigarettes, because with tobacco cigarettes it is not a case of pulling the tobacco out of the field, rolling it up and off you go. There are a lot of things added. Ms Brophy has looked at the website of one of the American manufacturers, which are required by law and by a court order to state on their website that they have modified the product to make it more addictive and harmful in the past 50 years. Cigarettes from 50 years ago are not the same as cigarettes now. The industry has modified them so a person will get his or her nicotine hit faster and they are more addictive. This is through the introduction of chemicals. Oddly, a so-called natural product has more toxins in it than the artificial product that is e-cigarettes. I forget why I was saying this now. Perhaps the Chairman will remind me.