Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Declan Connolly:
Not that I am aware of. Back in early 2019, we first started hearing reports from the US about lung injuries and the illness subsequently known as e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury. I remember the first day a news headline on RTÉ indicated that someone had died from vaping. I was asking "What is this?" All of a sudden, I think they had hundreds of people, it said, who had died from vaping. When you read more into it, it was not vaping per sethat caused these illnesses and deaths. This is where I refer back to the Deputy's question. People were putting illicit substances into their devices and vaping them. As I said, here in Ireland the-----
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