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I echo the well-made comments of my noble friend Lord Strathcarron. Why are we looking at this? Many of the clauses that we are debating in this Committee are hugely relevant to many millions of people who are smoking cigarettes, vaping or consuming nicotine in tobacco products, with clear health consequences for them. That is a noble ambition and an important cultural change. However, to allow this amendment into the legislation would be, I am sorry to say, an extraordinary absurdity.