Member

As the years roll on, we may well find that we want to make decisions about the extent to which we control vaping and nicotine products. In my view, this will not necessarily be to the extent that we control tobacco; it might have greater similarity to the way in which we control alcohol. Here, we are creating a regulatory regime with a potentially greater regulatory impact than the regime for alcohol. However, I suspect in the long run, we may end up with something that more closely relates to that regime than it does to the regime for tobacco. The fact that tobacco and vapes are grouped together in this Bill should not lead us to the erroneous conclusion that we are dealing with two products that manifest themselves in the same way and should therefore be treated in the same way.