Mr. John Dunne:

If we look at the smoking cessation rates in any country in the world and the vaping rates in those countries, there is a correlation between the two. Vaping rates are not increasing in any jurisdiction, even in the US where they claim there is a youth vaping epidemic. If youth vaping was a thing, then the smoking rate would be ticking back up, and it is not. The only reason it ticked back up in that specific time period was that vape shops in the Republic, and also in the UK where they saw the same thing happening, were closed and that education piece was taken away from smokers. As soon as the vape shops opened back up, the number of people smoking went back down again.