Opinion: How one country saw epidemic illnesses plummet – and Ireland could too
A dietary metamorphosis adopted in Finland in the 1970s has seen heart disease, some cancers and obesity levels drop dramatically. We should take note.
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A dietary metamorphosis adopted in Finland in the 1970s has seen heart disease, some cancers and obesity levels drop dramatically. We should take note.
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 HSE has announced the ban on e-cigarettes on its smoke-free campuses.
Everyone’s talking about Anglo bosses found guilty, Bertie Ahern, and Ukraine…
The bill now moves to the Dáil where it will have government support.
A new report found a huge decrease in the numbers of nurses smoking.
The sale of tobacco products could be banned between 7am and 9am and after 6pm.
It’s already planned that HSE campuses will be smoke-free by 2015 but e-cigarettes could be included in the policy.
A study published today shows such bans are also linked to a similar fall in the hospitals visits by children wit asthma.
This Saturday marks the tenth anniversary of the ban’s implementation.
The ban was introduced 10 years ago, on 29 March 2004.
The e-cigs have already been banned from DART and train services.
Residents of the homes, as well as public psychiatric facilities, at sites in the Midlands will be exempt.
Don’t try this at home, kids.
The 57-year-old father-of-three was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer last year.
Good morning, it’s the start of a new week so here’s today’s news to get your day started.
Is there a place for the Cuban cigar in a world that is starting to slowly hate tobacco?
There were plenty of strong words for tobacco companies on the opening night of the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in Dublin.
The director general of the Law Society said Ireland would be setting a precedent in Europe.
The bosses of the cigarette companies maintain that plain tobacco packaging will boost illegal sales.
How can we protect our young people from the tactics of the tobacco industry? The answer is simple: plain packaging, writes Kathleen O’Meara.
Smoking in cars raises levels of dangerous fine-particle pollutants.
The Psychiatric Nurses association at Kerry General Hospital say the HSE just wanted to make a ‘grand gesture’ but aren’t willing to back it up.
Some e-cigarette distributors report that parents have been been attempting to purchase e-cigarettes for their teenage children.
Health Minister James Reilly likely to bring in wider legislation to regulate use of device which cuts out tobacco – but still delivers nicotine.
Just how dangerous is passive smoking?
The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Bill 2013 was discussed by the Oireachtas today with a focus on the impact it could have on the black market.
Plain packaging on cigarette packets is being discussed today in Leinster House.
The report warns that smoking cigarettes can cause blindness, diabetes, erectile dysfunction and liver cancer.
After concerns in the US over children being poisoned by the liquid inside, the Department says it will be bringing forward regulations in 2014.
And their non-smoking counterparts don’t like it…
This will be the last year that people can light up a cigarette on hospital grounds.
Zippos are for girls.
Hospitals in Rathgar, Bantry, Mallow and Kerry will all ban smoking on campus from Monday.
Gerry Collins and his family are part of a new ad campaign to encourage people to stop smoking.
Make quitting smoking one of them.
The Minister for Health said it would be an “extraordinary society” which put the intellectual property rights of the tobacco industry ahead of the health of its citizens.
The Minister for Health, James Reilly, introduces the plain packaging bill at the Oireachtas Health Committee today.
The report pointed to a prevalence in smoking both among children and pregnant women in the more disadvantaged areas.
He follows in the footsteps of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and ex-minister Micheál Martin in the vendetta against the habit.