Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Allow me to preface my comments with the fact that my heart truly is in my childhood hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, today where Corporal Cirillo is being laid to rest. I know that our entire country joins Hamilton in mourning his passing and especially weeping for his very young child, but we are back to work as usual to demonstrate our resiliency here.
Thank you very much for joining us today on this important study on e-cigarettes.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with two recent studies, one published in The Lancet, and one published in Addiction. The study that was published in The Lancet compared both e-cigarettes with nicotine and without nicotine, up against nicotine patches, to see whether or not these were effective smoking cessation tools. While you can't extrapolate based on one study, it seemed to be that a patch was about as effective as these cigarettes. I'm also aware of the study in Addiction that looked to see, in real-world applications of sorts, whether an e-cigarette was an appropriate smoking cessation aid. There were some promising insights there. Those are two that are I'm aware of.
Are you aware of any others?