Health committee  The question is there certainly. There is legitimate reason to suspect that the vapour that contains nicotine when it's inhaled still contains nicotine for other recipients. Before we say yes or no, we need to do more studies.

Health committee  Again, it would be nice to say that there have been well-designed studies that demonstrate this, but to date, there have not. If you just think about an e-cigarette for a minute, it has a liquid in it. The liquid has varying constituents. Some have nicotine in them. Some have nic

Health committee  Again, it depends on what it contains. And again, I don't think there's been a comprehensive evaluation of this. Certainly, the paper from the WHO explored some of the concerns around hazards of it. Nicotine itself, as we mentioned earlier, is quite toxic. If taken in doses of si

Health committee  That is correct. Just to clarify, under the Food and Drugs Act and regulations, if a manufacturer of, say, an e-cigarette or any health product wants to gain market access, it's up to them to carry out the research to demonstrate that the product has efficacious effects on the d

Health committee  To build on what's just been said, we've definitely been monitoring e-cigarettes, what scientific evidence is out there in the public domain, and looking at it from the context of our regulatory frameworks. We did put out a notice in 2009 that alerted stakeholders to the fact tha

Health committee  Maybe I'll answer the first question a little bit more substantively. The intuitive assumption is that yes, this product may assist with smoking cessation as have other nicotine replacement therapies that are out there. But the fact is that this is a novel route of administratio