Professor Des Cox:

As I mentioned earlier, there was a recent journal article from Finland, where they introduced this, to show that ex-smokers continued to use the same level of e-cigarettes even after the flavouring ban came into place. I point out that a number of other regulations came into place as well. As I also mentioned earlier, it is important that we depend on the evidence and I would imagine we do not know the true impact as there have not yet been many other studies on that issue. Again, we would be happy to provide the committee with a further briefing on any updates or evidence that come to our into attention in the coming weeks.