Health Minister Simon Harris says children are being targeted with colourful and flavoured vaping products. Image: Oireachtas TV Health Minister Simon Harris says children are being targeted with colourful and flavoured vaping products. Image: Oireachtas TV HEALTH MINISTER SIMON Harris has rounded on politicians who have invited vaping company representatives into Leinster House.
“I think it is appalling the amount of members of the Oireachtas that are bringing around vaping companies in here and asking me to meet them,” he said, adding:He accused large tobacco industry of targeting children with the sale of e-cigarettes. He told the committee that he will bring legislation to Cabinet next month that will ban of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18 and prohibit the sale of tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products by anyone under the age of 18.
“This is a new arm to the tobacco industry, it is a threat to our children’s health and we need to call it out,” he said.
He's right on this one.
He needs to be meeting with medical cannabis reps, bollix to vaping.
Get rid of tobacco first. Vaping is miniscule compared to tobacco.
Interested in list of td's doing this OireachtasNews... Especially as death count in USA is going up due to vaping & now trying to ban
Vaping is bad for the exchequer. We are loosing Billions in Tax since feckers started Vaping. To make it even worse bloody scientists claim its 95% safer than smoking. No way to ban it and no way to Tax it. We hate Vaping.
A waste of space ,simplesimon
Hmmm cigarette companies payin him well so
For once he is right
MaryOGrady8 Instead you target children with chemicals..vaccines...abortion drugs. You have no problem accepting enormous taxes from tobacco and vaping sales.
He's obviously talking about the consultants - he was a NO SHOW.
Why should be meet them!!
Would agree with him on this one
Which politicians?
He’s grandstanding but any politicians trying to backdoor big tobacco in front of government ministers should be named, shamed and dismissed - either by their party or by the public very soon.
Weasel
Is HE still a minister
He is right!
Another one who should be in jail