50310 (2025). Hūhana Lyndon to the Associate Minister of Health

Written Question

Published date: 30 Oct 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	50310 (2025)
Question asked:	16 Oct 2025
Member asking:	Hūhana Lyndon
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Health
Minister replying:	Hon Casey Costello
Answer received:	23 Oct 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_50310_2025
Document guid:	44be3b6b-991d-4bc2-b043-58c453a63e36

50310 (2025). Hūhana Lyndon to the Associate Minister of Health: How, if at all, will the use of flavoured vapes help with reducing nicotine harm and addiction?

Hon Casey Costello: The Member seems to again be conflating issues around smoking and nicotine. We know that vapes are effective tools to support smoking cessation and are much less harmful than cigarettes. To the extent that flavoured vapes offer smokers choice that supports them to quit, then I would expect more smokers to switch to the much less harmful alternative of vaping.