Q3 Do you think it is important for legislation to prohibit the sale and supply of ecigarettes to young people under 18 years of age in the same way as it prohibits the sale and supply of smoked tobacco products to young people? Yes No X Reasons/additional comments: No. Simply because I would rather a young person who would normally try a cigarette is at more risk of harm by choosing the combustible tobacco product than harm from an electronic cigarette, whether it contains nicotine or not. Most youth who do utilise e do NOT utilise nicotine e liquid and those that do, use them in PLACE OF combustible tobacco cigarettes, in my experience. Q4 Do you think it is important for legislation to control advertising of ecigarettes in the same way as it controls advertising of smoked tobacco products? Yes No X Reasons/additional comments: Advertising should be available to educate and inform current smokers of combustible tobacco of the alternative of ENDS. Q5 Do you it is important for the SFEA to prohibit vaping in designated smokefree areas in the same way as it prohibits smoking in such areas? Yes No X Reasons/additional comments: The use of ENDS with nicotine e liquid is not a public health issue in the way that combustible tobacco products are, and therefore should not be treated as the same, either via public restriction beyond being an 18+ product. Nor should there be excessive taxation (as there are no additional costs to the National Health System from their use, as is with combustible tobacco) Also, there is no evidence that there is any harm anyone in contact or exposed to the exhalation from an electronic cigarette with nicotine e-liquid. (“second hand vapour”) The references included in the document itself provide this evidence as proved by scientific method. (Public Health UK, College of Physicians reports). Q6 Do you that other controls in the SFEA for smoked tobacco products should apply to ecigarettes? For example: Control Yes No Reasons/ additional comments X Requirement for graphic health warnings X Prohibition on displaying products in sales outlets X Restriction on use of vending machines
Q3 Do you think it is important for legislation to prohibit the sale and supply of ecigarettes to young people under 18 years of age in the same way as it prohibits the sale and supply of smoked tobacco products to young people? Yes No X Reasons/additional comments: No. Simply because I would rather a young person who would normally try a cigarette is at more risk of harm by choosing the combustible tobacco product than harm from an electronic cigarette, whether it contains nicotine or not. Most youth who do utilise e do NOT utilise nicotine e liquid and those that do, use them in PLACE OF combustible tobacco cigarettes, in my experience. Q4 Do you think it is important for legislation to control advertising of ecigarettes in the same way as it controls advertising of smoked tobacco products? Yes No X Reasons/additional comments: Advertising should be available to educate and inform current smokers of combustible tobacco of the alternative of ENDS. Q5 Do you it is important for the SFEA to prohibit vaping in designated smokefree areas in the same way as it prohibits smoking in such areas? Yes No X Reasons/additional comments: The use of ENDS with nicotine e liquid is not a public health issue in the way that combustible tobacco products are, and therefore should not be treated as the same, either via public restriction beyond being an 18+ product. Nor should there be excessive taxation (as there are no additional costs to the National Health System from their use, as is with combustible tobacco) Also, there is no evidence that there is any harm anyone in contact or exposed to the exhalation from an electronic cigarette with nicotine e-liquid. (“second hand vapour”) The references included in the document itself provide this evidence as proved by scientific method. (Public Health UK, College of Physicians reports). Q6 Do you that other controls in the SFEA for smoked tobacco products should apply to ecigarettes? For example: Control Yes No Reasons/ additional comments Requirement for graphic health warnings X Prohibition on displaying products in sales outlets X Restriction on use of vending machines X
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