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I also fear that legislating only for a smokefree society will leave opportunity for the tobacco industry to innovate and create new products, which we know it does all the time. The industry has targeted marketing at vulnerable people many times, and there is nothing to stop it doing it again in order to monopolise a new market that harms people’s health. That is why the legislation must be active and amendable. To prevent reopening the Bill in future years, we might as well kill two birds with one stone by ensuring that there is no opportunity for nicotine to continue ruining people’s lives. We may need to consider that as the Bill progresses through the Lords.