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"Mr President, I was happy to support this Directive, and indeed I was a member of the Irish Parliament when we introduced the ban on smoking in the workplace. At that time I fully supported that groundbreaking legislation. That legislation of course was to protect smokers’ health, but also to protect the health of others from second-hand smoke.
I have to say that in general I have a certain wariness of the nanny state – particularly at EU level, because it is so difficult to change it. However, my starting point on this piece of legislation was that I asked myself: if tobacco were being introduced for sale today, would it ever make it to our supermarket shelves? And the answer to that is: no. So it was in that context that I decided how to vote.
I voted against the imitation tobacco products being banned, because that is nanny state, and I did not vote to include e-cigarettes as medicinal products. Paul Murphy talked about lobbying. 98 % of the lobbying that I received was from people who were trying to give up cigarettes, urging that they should not be included as medicinal products, but I did vote to get rid of flavoured and slim cigarettes and for 65 % health warning on packets.
I also changed my Amendment 97 vote to a plus."@en1
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