# smoking - Monday 19 May, 2014
# Food
# Food
A dietary metamorphosis adopted in Finland in the 1970s has seen heart disease, some cancers and obesity levels drop dramatically. We should take note.
# smoking - Saturday 17 May, 2014
# Smoking
# Smoking
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.
# smoking - Thursday 24 April, 2014
# Quitting
# Quitting
The HSE has announced the ban on e-cigarettes on its smoke-free campuses.
# smoking - Thursday 17 April, 2014
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about Anglo bosses found guilty, Bertie Ahern, and Ukraine…
# Health
# Health
The bill now moves to the Dáil where it will have government support.
# smoking - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
# Lighting Up
# Lighting Up
A new report found a huge decrease in the numbers of nurses smoking.
# smoking - Friday 4 April, 2014
# Your Say
# Your Say
The sale of tobacco products could be banned between 7am and 9am and after 6pm.
# smoking - Monday 31 March, 2014
# No Vaping
# No Vaping
It’s already planned that HSE campuses will be smoke-free by 2015 but e-cigarettes could be included in the policy.
# smoking - Friday 28 March, 2014
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
A study published today shows such bans are also linked to a similar fall in the hospitals visits by children wit asthma.
# smoking - Monday 24 March, 2014
# Tobacco
# Tobacco
This Saturday marks the tenth anniversary of the ban’s implementation.
# Your Say
# Your Say
The ban was introduced 10 years ago, on 29 March 2004.
# smoking - Wednesday 19 March, 2014
# Legislation
# Legislation
The e-cigs have already been banned from DART and train services.
# smoking - Wednesday 5 March, 2014
# HSE
# HSE
Residents of the homes, as well as public psychiatric facilities, at sites in the Midlands will be exempt.
# Smoke And Mirrors
From The Daily Edge
# Smoke And Mirrors
Don’t try this at home, kids.
# smoking - Monday 3 March, 2014
# RIP
# RIP
The 57-year-old father-of-three was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer last year.
# 9 At 9
# 9 At 9
Good morning, it’s the start of a new week so here’s today’s news to get your day started.
# smoking - Saturday 1 March, 2014
# Smoking
# Smoking
Is there a place for the Cuban cigar in a world that is starting to slowly hate tobacco?
# smoking - Friday 28 February, 2014
# Fine Gael Ard Fheis
# Fine Gael Ard Fheis
There were plenty of strong words for tobacco companies on the opening night of the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in Dublin.
# smoking - Thursday 13 February, 2014
# Smoking
# Smoking
The director general of the Law Society said Ireland would be setting a precedent in Europe.
# Smoking
# Smoking
The bosses of the cigarette companies maintain that plain tobacco packaging will boost illegal sales.
# Plain And Simple
# Plain And Simple
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 - Monday 10 February, 2014
# Smoke Free Cars
# Smoke Free Cars
Smoking in cars raises levels of dangerous fine-particle pollutants.
# smoking - Sunday 2 February, 2014
# Clear The Air
# Clear The Air
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.
# smoking - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
# Smoke Signals
# Smoke Signals
Some e-cigarette distributors report that parents have been been attempting to purchase e-cigarettes for their teenage children.
# smoking - Monday 27 January, 2014
# Out Of Puff
# Out Of Puff
Health Minister James Reilly likely to bring in wider legislation to regulate use of device which cuts out tobacco – but still delivers nicotine.
# smoking - Sunday 26 January, 2014
# Asthma
# Asthma
Just how dangerous is passive smoking?
# smoking - Thursday 23 January, 2014
# Black Market
# Black Market
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.
# Your Say
# Your Say
Plain packaging on cigarette packets is being discussed today in Leinster House.
# smoking - Friday 17 January, 2014
# Smoking
# Smoking
The report warns that smoking cigarettes can cause blindness, diabetes, erectile dysfunction and liver cancer.
# smoking - Wednesday 8 January, 2014
# Health
# Health
After concerns in the US over children being poisoned by the liquid inside, the Department says it will be bringing forward regulations in 2014.
# smoking - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
# Smoke Breaks
# Smoke Breaks
And their non-smoking counterparts don’t like it…
# smoking - Monday 6 January, 2014
# No Smoking
# No Smoking
This will be the last year that people can light up a cigarette on hospital grounds.
# Flaming Nora
From The Daily Edge
# Flaming Nora
Zippos are for girls.
# smoking - Friday 3 January, 2014
# No Smoking
# No Smoking
Hospitals in Rathgar, Bantry, Mallow and Kerry will all ban smoking on campus from Monday.
# smoking - Monday 30 December, 2013
# Smoking
# Smoking
Gerry Collins and his family are part of a new ad campaign to encourage people to stop smoking.
# Sponsored By The Hse
From The Daily Edge
# Sponsored By The Hse
Make quitting smoking one of them.
# smoking - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
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.
# smoking - Thursday 5 December, 2013
# Plain Packaging Bill
# Plain Packaging Bill
The Minister for Health, James Reilly, introduces the plain packaging bill at the Oireachtas Health Committee today.
# smoking - Monday 25 November, 2013
# Smoking
# Smoking
The report pointed to a prevalence in smoking both among children and pregnant women in the more disadvantaged areas.
# smoking - Sunday 24 November, 2013
# Thank You For Not Smoking
# Thank You For Not Smoking
He follows in the footsteps of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and ex-minister Micheál Martin in the vendetta against the habit.
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