SpeechJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Thank you Madam Speaker. I am really pleased to take a call on behalf of New Zealand First on the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill in its third reading tonight.As a member of the Health Committee I would like to begin in acknowledgment of the chair Louisa Wall; our deputy chair Dr Shane Reti; and also all members who contribute to that committee. This was a piece of legislation which we were all supportive of and we had some great discussions throughout our select committee. At the centre of our discussions was helping people who were smokers to transition away from that nasty habit which consumes your life—and I say that as a former born-again non-smoker. Had there been vapes around when I was much younger and I gave up cigarettes I'm sure my transition would have been much easier and certainly those in my family may have felt the transition a little less intense. So this is an amazing tool and congratulations to the Minister the Hon Jenny Salesa for bringing this to the House. You have made a wonderful contribution to society to the health of our young people and for that I commend you and working collegially with New Zealand First and our confidence and supply partner the Greens as well. It's been a wonderful experience to do that with you.This is all about making sure we have a tool as we've mentioned and heard in the House tonight that will help people transition away from cigarettes and this product even though it is considered 95 percent less harmful than smoking is something that we will need to keep an eye on in the future. There are quite a staggering number of people who are using vapes to come off tobacco—150000 to 200000 people vape in New Zealand and 47 percent of them are former smokers; 50 percent are dual smokers and vapers. So even though they still may be smoking cigarettes they are vaping as well; so their reduction in cigarettes has increased with their use of vaping. That is a great transition for them and as other members have mentioned we want to see the pathway away from cigarettes not from vaping to cigarettes. That has been a great discussion we've had and I think with the changes to the legislation—thank you to the Minister for the Supplementary Order Paper and the amendment to that—that will go some way.I would just like to mention one of the discussions we had in select committee. There were a couple of themes that came through strongly in our discussions—1200 submissions 84 of them oral and as we've noted we heard through the lockdown period via our Zoom conferences. We heard from vaping consumers from Māori and Pasifika organisations from the health sector as well and flavours were a big discussion because some of those flavours with their creative names—creative writers dreamt up all wonderful names like Unicorn Dust" and all this sort of thing—wonderful vanilla dessert flavours that were very appealing maybe not just to young people but certainly the advertising is an incredibly powerful tool in the way that it can change people's minds. That can be not necessarily a good thing; it can persuade people. So by having restrictions around advertising and restrictions around flavours we can ensure that young people won't be exposed to this product and thinking that it's a normal thing to do. That's something I am very pleased about in this bill.Really in essence this bill is a bridge for smokers to quit and that's the most important thing—along with not encouraging or enabling our young people to get hold of a product. I'd just like to also mention too some schools particularly a school that I live near. Some of the teachers have drawers full of vape that they've confiscated from their young people. Now they'll be very pleased that there are regulations that will stop some of those young people being able to buy them. This is a very good bill. Thank you very much and congratulations to the Hon Jenny Salesa for bringing this to the House and along with banning smoking in cars carrying our kids. Well done. Congratulations. The public has asked for this we have delivered and I commend this bill to the House."