Opinion: Is there now an argument for banning e-cigarettes in Ireland?
E-cigarettes are not harmless, but now is not the time for mass hysteria, writes Professor Des Cox.
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E-cigarettes are not harmless, but now is not the time for mass hysteria, writes Professor Des Cox.
Several teenagers have been placed in medically induced comas.
100s of other have reportedly become ill with a number of teenagers in induced comas as a result.
New research shows that babies can be at an increased risk of cot death if exposed to cigarettes or e-cigarette smoke while in the womb.
A new US study found workers were three times more likely to quit if there was a financial incentive.
We need truthful information on the relative risks of cigarettes compared to the various smoke-free alternative products, writes David T Sweanor.
“A renewed focus on nicotine can help us to achieve a world where cigarettes no longer addict future generations of our kids,” the FDA said.
Data from Healthy Ireland reveals that 29% of smokers currently use e-cigarettes as an aid to quitting smoking.
Ash Ireland today urged people to consider giving up smoking in the new year.
“With such unprecedented rates of success, the trick now is to figure out how to get more people to sign up — to feel like they have skin in the game.”
That’s what the the Irish Cancer Society is calling for.
A study has revealed the rate at which smokers metabolise nicotine could predict the best way to quit.
Yes, you’ve done fantastically well to ween yourself down from a Grade 1 carcinogen to the equivalent of weed killer. But that doesn’t make it OK vape in front of my three-year-old.
The Health Minister is pledging to continue his war on tobacco on the 10th anniversary of the smoking ban.
Cigarette companies have been accused of spending millions to influence new European directives on tobacco, but Enda Kenny and James Reilly are asking their European counterparts to vote against any change to warning labels.
ASH Ireland said the levy should be imposed on the tobacco industry, on the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
Experts say smokers are at risk from the toxins and tar in cigarettes, not the nicotine that is in e-cigarettes.
Michael Noonan says the EU’s laws on VAT mean Ireland can’t offer a discounted rate of VAT to match Northern prices.
New research describes the global use of tobacco an “epidemic” – with women increasingly starting to smoke at younger ages and early half of adult men in developing countries still using tobacco products.
Jealousy, guilt about their own smoking and wanting a smoking “buddy” among the main reasons.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has added nicotine to its monitoring list, paving the way for a possible ban at some point in the future.