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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Yes. Amendment proposed : 18, in clause 1, page 1, line 13, leave out “shown on that document was before 1 January 2009” and insert “showed that the purchaser was not under the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Forgive me for my ignorance, but could my hon. Friend illustrate what levels 3 and 4 mean in practice and how they might read across to similar products, such as alcohol, so we…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)My hon. Friend might best be able to provide clarification. Perhaps I have misunderstood, perhaps this is a mistake or perhaps it is deliberate. I understand why each jurisdiction…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)It is the top of page 36. As I understand it, clause 68 makes the sale of tobacco a level 5 offence in Northern Ireland, and my hon. Friend is seeking to make the first offence a…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I support my hon. Friend on the principle, which we see in other legislation, but the point about children is important. Shopkeepers are used to the concept of Challenge 25 for…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I take the point my hon. Friend is quite eloquently making, but might I suggest to her that times have very much changed: the advertising that she has talked about has long since…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I will just expand the point a little bit. My understanding of heated tobacco, for example—my hon. Friend is a medical professional, so she may take a different view—is that where…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I will just expand on that point a little. The United Kingdom is something like the third biggest tourist destination in the world. Forgive my ignorance—there is a lot of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)One thing that will be particularly operationally difficult is the period of time during which those on the shop floor may not be able to use cigarettes themselves, but they will…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Judging from the tone of debate so far, I might be the most sceptical about the principle of clauses 1, 50 and 68, and I appreciate that perhaps I am in the minority. I will talk…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Very simply, in the future, we will create two tiers of adults. Those people are children today, and it is right that in law we prohibit them from smoking, because they cannot…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I take the Minister’s point that in a society in which we are looked after by our NHS, to which we all contribute, which is free at the point of use and which I am sure all of us…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a very reasonable point, but there is not a single adult in this country who does not know how bad cigarettes are for them. It is an important function of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I take the hon. Member’s point. I understand that cigarettes are obviously incredibly addictive, but I think we can exercise that point too far. People who smoke have agency to…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his point. Forgive me if I did say it was easy, but I try to pick my words carefully, and I do not think I did say that. I said they had agency, and…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Does the Minister perhaps not see the difficulty with the fact that we will be out of international lockstep with everybody? My understanding is that both New Zealand and Malaysia…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I sympathise with what the Minister says about the world wanting us to make it work. I will make an analogy that I think is directly relevant. My expertise before joining this…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the Minister for his passionate remarks, which I am obviously not going to take lying down. I agree wholeheartedly that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I will move, then, to tobacco products, the definition of which is in clauses 1, 50 and 68—forgive me that digression, Mr Dowd, but I got blown off course a little by some Labour…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I recognise the hon. Lady’s passionate belief in equality, but I find that somewhat paternalistic and somewhat—I do not mean this dismissively—condescending. Poorer people have…09 Jan 2025