Question on e-cigarettes

QUESTION NO: 608

DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Dr. James Reilly)
by Deputies
for WRITTEN ANSWER on 17/12/2013

* To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review on the regulation of e-cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

– Thomas Pringle T.D.

For WRITTEN answer on Tuesday, 17th December, 2013.
REPLY.
The report of the Tobacco Policy Review Group ‘Tobacco Free Ireland’ was launched on the 03rd October 2013. The report recommends the establishment of a regulatory framework for nicotine products in the context of discussions at European Union level. Last December, the Commission published a proposal for a new EU Tobacco Products Directive, the ultimate purpose of which is to reduce the numbers of people smoking. The proposal is being discussed in the European Parliament and Council of Ministers and the Commission hope that it will be adopted in 2014. Under the proposal, electronic cigarettes above a certain threshold of nicotine would be regulated under medicines legislation.

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