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:

I agree to the majority of them apart from point of sale, purely because it is the area in which, especially in my shop, one gets a level of education. The retailer gets to explain to the customer what the product is. It is not like a person walks into a vape shop and there is one vape there. I have more than 30 different starter kits because, as the official from the Department of Health stated, every single smoker or vaper is neurologically different and no one-size-fits-all approach works when it comes to quitting smoking.