Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion
Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There does not seem to be any vaping etiquette either. No one would consider blowing smoke into another person's face - it would just not be acceptable - but it seems to be viewed as acceptable for people to walk along the street and suddenly find a cloud around them.
The issue of alcohol was mentioned. Where e-cigarettes are on sale, do the witnesses favour them being sectioned off? In quite a number of multiples, there are whole aisles full of them. People are walking down them because there might be garden products on one end, for example. The witnesses probably know one of the multiples I am talking about. It sells a lot of cheaper products and food, which brings in families, and there is a whole wall of vaping products. The different flavours, colours and the like that people have mentioned do not have an impact on me, but there are people who are looking to quit. Some say that a particular flavour helps them. A young lad who works in my office says that he used to smoke a brand that he brought in from the US but that he cannot bring in anymore. My message with this point is that he will now try to give up vaping. I have listened to what the witnesses have said about cessation and the fact of dropping-----
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