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:

On initiation, forgive me for going back to the Healthy Ireland report but one figure that must be kept in mind is that fewer than 1% of people who vape never smoked. These are all people who were already smoking. If these things attract them to switch over to vaping and to move away from the harm of smoking, that is, in the main, a good thing. Obviously, we need to get the balance right. We do not want people who never smoked to start vaping.