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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way?09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Could the hon. Lady tell me about the consumption of nicotine among people once the Government had brought in the smoking ban in public places? Was there a reduction in nicotine…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I say, first, that I fully support this Bill and what it intends to do. Having worked in respiratory medicine in my very first job as a doctor, I saw far too many people suffering…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I welcome clause 3. It is sensible that we protect children from having easy access to products that we have decided should be age-restricted, and it is clearly sensible that…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to make sure I have it clear in my head. If someone wants to license something as a medicine or a medical product, they have to go through the more complicated, more…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)Q Professor Turner, Dr Helen Stewart from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health gave evidence last summer to the Health and Social Care Committee, of which I am a…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)As a declaration of interest, I am an NHS consultant paediatrician and a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)Q I want to ask you about vaping, particularly among children and pregnant women. First, to Kate, are you aware of any research into which chemicals from vaping may be transported…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I find what you say about the disposables interesting. A year ago last February I proposed a ten-minute rule Bill to ban disposable vapes to protect the environment and…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)That is what we heard from the doctors earlier. Professor McNeill: I think the jury is out on that. I would say that the gateway hypothesis is highly contested. It used to be…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to ask about this tension that you have kept coming back to throughout the past couple of days. Particularly on flavours, it is the idea that we need to help grown-ups…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q This is very interesting evidence. I want to ask you about flavours. I note that more recently we have started to see flavours among the nicotine pouches that you have just…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you think the penalties should fall on the person who sold the good, rather than the person who produced and made the illegal product and released it for sale? Mr Lawson: You…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The final part of that question was whether you think the penalties are enough of a deterrent, and whether you think the Bill does anything that will really resolve this. Mr…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Mr Lawson, you talked about how many of these products exceed the level, and those figures you presented were quite shocking, but how do people tell? You might think that if you…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Could you clarify something else? If I were a vape manufacturer wanting to get full registration as a medical product for one of my vapes, and I did an apple flavour and a gummy…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I understand that. Do you think that it is the right authority to do that? Could it be misleading to members of the public, who see that the vaping devices they buy have been…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Would they count as listed with and notified to the MHRA? Dr Squire: They are notified to the MHRA, and that notification is under the tobacco and related products rules. That…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q In order to be a prescribable drug, an e-cigarette or vape would need to go through an awful lot of testing to demonstrate its effectiveness in what it does, the safety of its…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you have any more details about the medical effects of vaping on non-smokers? Professor Agrawal: Nicotine itself can raise the heart rate and raise blood pressure, although…01 May 2024