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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I would prefer to stick to the evidence-based research.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: The British Medical Journalsays the opposite. We cannot come to a consensus on this. Mr. Dunne is refusing to accept plain packaging which, in fairness would be standard for most medical products. When people fill a prescription the product comes in something that might have the name on it. Most generic medicines have plain packaging. We know smoking products have plain packaging. Are we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Nicorette does not have cartoon vampires on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: The rate of people quitting smoking has fallen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Vape Business Ireland's position is that to get this rate going again we need more vaping and not less vaping.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. O'Boyle mentioned his experience of business. He gave the example of a lady who could not find a way to quit smoking. On average, and I do not want him to give personal information, how much does she take every week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: How much does she vape every week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that 3 mg of nicotine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. O'Boyle sells shots of nicotine to add to those also. She is taking 18 mg-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Does Mr. O'Boyle accept that being addicted to nicotine is separate from being addicted to tobacco?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Does he accept it would be preferable if that lady was not addicted to nicotine, which she still is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. O'Boyle's position is that it is okay to be addicted to nicotine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Is Mr. O'Boyle speaking about making a transition to a product or that the product is a transition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Is it preferable that people are not addicted to nicotine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Obviously some of the conversations are repeated from previous sessions. There has been a lot of discussion around our rates of smoking and the levelling of the decline in smoking, which would have happened after the smoking ban. The position of the industry representatives in the previous session was that Covid meant that vaping was less accessible. Someone could not walk into a shop and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: We were all stressed out over Covid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Would Professor Cox agree?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I will touch on something that Deputy Cullinane raised. During these conversations and the pre-legislative scrutiny process, we have talked a lot about the move away from tobacco and tobacco addiction, but we have talked less about addiction to nicotine in and of itself. In the last session, the use of the word "transition" came up in the sense of smokers transitioning from a tobacco...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I wish to refer to products without using brand names. Is there good evidence to suggest people use other aids that provide nicotine for a long time after they quit smoking or other tobacco products? Are the aids for life?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: They might be vaping indoors and smoking outdoors.