Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Eoin O'Boyle:
No, it is not, especially in my store. I get to know nearly every single one of my customers on a name basis. That is why the success rate of people quitting smoking with vaping in my shop is so high. In the past six months, I cannot think of anyone I spoke to who never smoked in the first place. I cannot understand why a person would start vaping if he or she had never smoked. Even the Healthy Ireland study this year showed that only 1% of those who vape were never smokers, which is a tiny proportion of the amount of vapers.
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