Health committee  I've tried to discern that down into two questions. One I might address has to do with concerns about the glycol. It's an organic molecule.

Health committee  All right. Fair enough.

Health committee  I just want to make sure I answer your question. I can't give you a comprehensive answer on the pharmacology of everything that could possibly be mixed in it. Propylene glycol is routinely available. You probably used it in your shampoo today. We actually use it as a suspension

Health committee  Yes, of course. Trying to put it within a medical framework, I think, in an already overburdened health care system, would be a disadvantage to the people who are going to seek out electronic cigarettes. I do not see it as a prescription drug.

Health committee  We carry the vaporizers, which are rechargeable, as well as the disposable products.

Health committee  Yes, sir.

Health committee  There are two—

Health committee  Yes. There are two fundamentally different types of vaporizer technologies. There are ones that are dry herb vaporizers. Let's be honest, there's one dry herb that people are looking to use in that type of vaporizer. We do not deal with that at all. The type of vaporizer we use

Health committee  Yes, usually the propellent or the admissible liquid is propylene glycol.

Health committee  That's fair enough, sir; it's a very good question. If it causes no cardiovascular harm.... As I said, when I was approached, from a purely business perspective, I spent six.... When somebody mentioned electronic cigarettes to me, I was completely ignorant of it, two years ago.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  That's fair enough.

Health committee  Well, sir, the way flavouring is used in marketing can be regulated. I certainly would agree 100% that any representation of the use of tobacco to youth as a cool thing, as a lifestyle thing, be completely off limits.

Health committee  I can extrapolate from data in jurisdictions in which flavours are freely available, and the actual use of electronic cigarettes by youth is exceptionally low. It's less than 0.1% in a huge population study in Germany. We can emphasize the small use of electronic cigarettes by y

Health committee  No addictions is always better, but it's not practical.