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Somehow, the issue of flavours has become entangled with the notion that flavours are just a cynical ploy to hook the young into vaping. That is a conspiratorial take which is not that helpful. It misses out a crucial notion: it assumes that adults do not like sweet things. As somebody who eats a lot of Jelly Tots, never mind anything else, I disagree. As I said at Second Reading, there is a huge market of flavoured gins. Last year at Christmas, the House of Lords Gift Shop was selling little tins of sweet-flavoured gins. They went down a treat as Christmas presents for adults. I did not buy them for 10 year-olds. The adults like them because of those sweet flavours. We need to get rid of the myth that because there are flavours, they are aimed at children—I do not believe that to be true.