Mr. Eoin O'Boyle:

It is preferable they are not addicted to anything. Just like caffeine and other addictive substances it is about what comes with nicotine. With cigarettes it is not nicotine that kills. It is nicotine that addicts. It is the tar and carcinogenics that kill. We have shown that vaping is up to 95% safer than smoking. This is where the balance of risk comes in. My mother was a smoker. She was addicted for 30 years. She could not quit no matter what she did. She loved the nicotine. She did not want to give up. She gave up for health reasons. When I opened the shop I gave my mother a vape and she successfully quit. Now she vapes but not that much. She knows it is there in case she has a craving for a cigarette. This is what I have seen every day over the past three years.