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Smoking still causes over 4,500 deaths in Ireland each year
A quarter of all men and 20% of women in Ireland smoke.
32.7% of nine-year-olds from Ireland’s lowest-income families are exposed to secondary smoke daily.
We need smoking prevention efforts to ensure smoking rates continue to drop among all young people, writes Donal Buggy.
Two in three smokers want to give up writes Donald Buggy of the Irish Cancer Society.
Ireland is to become the second country in the world to introduce plain packets of cigarettes.
The Minister underlined his commitment to reduce the number of young people taking up smoking as the World Health Organisation’s No Tobacco Day is marked.
Smoking will be stubbed out at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital Group this year, thanks to a new initiative being introduced on World No Tobacco Day.