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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)
Bernard Durkan: Do the same standards apply here as in the UK?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Essentially, what Mr. Dunne is saying is that vaping is not advisable for very young people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: The next point that is important to emphasise is that vaping is not a gateway product. I would like a response to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Is vaping habit forming?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Given that vaping is habit forming, is there a danger that people who are currently vapers might want to move to cigarette smoking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Does the evidence indicate that the use of fruit flavours is an introduction to smoking? Some evidence suggests that people move from tobacco to different fruit flavours, but is there evidence to suggest that they move back to tobacco?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Is it accepted that there has been an increase in tobacco smoking in recent years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: There is a very distinctive smell from smoking in an area in general. Would people who were concerned about their health not have been equally concerned about nicotine being a conveyer of the virus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Has it been established beyond doubt that vaping does not re-encourage people towards tobacco smoking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: We have seen an uptake in smoking but it is attributed to the virus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Is vaping a gateway drug? Is it a gateway with regard to cigarette smoking, tobacco smoking and nicotine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Have the witnesses any evidence as to the number of dual users who might be out there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Might restrictions on the use of tobacco, cigarettes and vaping apply? Should they enforced and applied and to what extent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: On restrictions to smoking and discouraging vaping, from the earlier statement, can the same restrictions be used as apply-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: The other way around. Should the same restrictions be applied to vaping as apply to cigarette smoking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: It appears that vaping is regarded as a gateway drug; the Institute of Public Health regards it as such. To what extent is there evidence to show that it is a gateway drug and that users of vaping have moved on to cigarettes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Cigarette smoking. What is the actual evidence of vape smokers moving on to cigarette smoking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: That would be helpful. I thank the Chairman. I apologise for the sound system problems kicking in today. There is something wrong with the machine or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Would it not be advisable to separate that information and extrapolate from it if was truly the lockdown that caused that uptake or was it the use of smoking tobacco substitutes?