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. John Dunne:

Very few vapers who move from vaping the tobacco flavour to fruit and mint flavours go back to the tobacco flavour. That rarely happens, but it does happen sometimes. We also find that vapers use different products at different times. In the morning, they may use a tobacco flavour. At midday they may use mint and they may use a fruit or combination flavour in the evening. Vaping is a very different product that they do not have when they smoke. There is no evidence that the fruit flavours would entice them to go back to smoking. In fact, Nicorette gum, for instance, comes in fruit flavours.

They also contain nicotine.