Press Release - 3m Euro Tobacco Research Contract for RIFTFS, - Tuesday, April 07, 2009
The Digital Depot, Dublin.
The Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society (RIFTFS) is to coordinate a 3m euro research contract on a project entitled, Pricing Policies and control of Tobacco in Europe.(PPACTE) The first meetings designed to launch the project will be held at the Digital Depot, Dublin on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th February.
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UC Davis study links smoking with most male cancer deaths - 21st January, 2009
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — The association between tobacco smoke and cancer deaths — beyond lung cancer deaths — has been strengthened by a recent study from a UC Davis researcher, suggesting that increased tobacco control efforts could save more lives than previously estimated.
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World Asthma Day - 6th May, 2008
Paris, 6 May, 2008 – The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease,
known as The Union, an international organisation established in 1920 to fight TB and
promote lung health worldwide, today celebrates World Asthma Day
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Best Paper Award for Irish Smoking Ban Study - 6th October 2008
The 2008 Occupation and Epidemiology Best Paper Annual Award will be presented to Professor Luke Clancy on behalf of a group of Irish authors in Berlin tomorrow (7th October 2008).
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Irish Launch of PESCE Project Report - Thursday 29 May, 2008
General Practitioners should play a key role in supporting smokers to quit and need to be supported to do so through addressing the existing socioeconomic, information and communication barriers to their full participation
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Ireland & Northern Ireland National Cancer Institute Consortium newsletter - Spring 2007
A periodic update of progress and events.
Renewed memorandum of understanding continues consortium momentum
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Smoking Ban Dramatically Reduces Air Pollution in Irish Pubs - 16th April 2007
A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an 83 percent reduction in air pollution in pubs, an 80 percent decrease in airborne carcinogens for patrons and staff, and an improvement in the respiratory health of bar workers, according to a one-year follow-up study.
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Press Statement from RIFTFS - 16th April 2007
Research shows 83% reduction in air pollution in Dublin pubs…….
The findings of a major Irish study on the reduction in air pollution and improvement in respiratory health of workers in Irish pubs as a result of the workplace-smoking ban are published to day(16th April) in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The study was conducted by RIFTFS in collaboration with DIT and a research team headed up by Professor Luke Clancy Director General of the Institute – who is also Chairman of ASH Ireland.
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Press Release - MRCG & HRB funding - Monday 2nd April 2007
€2 million funding to increase charity led research into rare diseases
Mary Harney, Minister for Health and Children, will today announce 33 novel research projects to improve patient health which will be funded through a new joint funding scheme co-ordinated by the Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) and the Health Research Board (HRB). A total of €2 million will be invested each year for three years to support research into both common and rare diseases including cancer, retinitis pigmentosa (a form of blindness), epidermolysis bullosa (a rare skin disease), muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.
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The Economist - 4th January 2007
ANYONE who promised, in a boozy fug of new-year righteousness, to give up smoking in 2007 will have more than just their friends to egg them on—the government is keen to help too. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which advises the National Health Service, has recommended time off for workers to help them quit, and says that new anti-addiction drugs should be available on the NHS. On New Year's Day the government said it would raise the legal age for buying cigarettes from 16 to 18 in October. The biggest change is the imminent ban on smoking in public places, such as pubs and restaurants. A similar prohibition has existed in Scotland since 2006, and Northern Ireland, Wales and England will all follow suit this year. Come July, Britain's public indoor spaces will be a smoke-free zone.
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Benchmark High Court decision on tobacco control is welcomed - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Ash Ireland welcomes a benchmark decision on the test purchase protocol, relating to tobacco, in the High Court last week. This protocol was developed by the Office of Tobacco Control and is implemented by Environmental Health Officers.
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Pub customers numbers up 11%
The study of 38 pubs throughout Dublin found that while staffing levels in pubs fell by almost 9% — 129 against 118 — after the ban was introduced in March 2004, 11% more customers visited the pubs — from an average of 59 to 66. It also found there was a huge reduction, 77.8%, in the number of people smoking on a visit to a pub
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Global study finds Ireland has some of the cleanest pubs in the world
Harvard Study finds Irish pubs under smoke-free law in Ireland show 91% lower indoor air pollution than "Irish Pubs" in cities around the world.
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40,000 smokers would quit if price went up 10% - Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Nearly 40,000 Irish people would quit smoking if the price of twenty cigarettes increased to €6.98. That is according to research done by the EU anti-smoking campaign, ‘Help – for a life without tobacco’, which shows that a 10% price increase in high income countries results in a 4% reduction in smoker numbers.
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Vintners Circumvent the Legislation and Encourage Smoking. 28 February 2006
ASH Ireland is seriously concerned about the proliferation of smoking rooms in many pubs in Dublin and around the country. As many people try to quit smoking this ASH Wednesday, we have a vintners trade demonstrating its determination to encourage smoking, by circumventing the workplace legislation.
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High compliance with the smoke-free workplace law means dramatic reduction in exposure to smoke
HIGH COMPLIANCE WITH THE SMOKE-FREE WORKPLACE LAW MEANS DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN EXPOSURE TO SECOND-HAND SMOKE IN ENCLOSED WORKPLACES
Smoking prevalence in Ireland falls to less than one-in-four from almost one-in-three in 1998
But Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) says no room for complacency in tobacco control as slight increase in the numbers smoking in recent months
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Press Statement - 10 October 2005
ASH Ireland Welcomes Positive Smoking Figures – but is concerned that lack of Price Increases is set to Unravel all that has been achieved.
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"Study reveals a dramatic increase in number of young people who tried smoking between 11-15" - Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Several EU member states have alarmingly high smoking prevalence
amongst young people and reducing smoking in youth is a crucial task
for tobacco control. The EU anti-smoking campaign HELP – For a life
without Tobacco – highlighted, in a major review of research, the
alarmingly high numbers of young people who smoke.
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“One in six 11 year olds are smoking” - Monday, August 15, 2005
The “Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study” analysed smoking behaviour in adolescents from 35 European countries, reveals that there is a dramatic increase in the number of young people who reported having tried smoking between the ages of 11 and 15.
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Press Statement - 31st May 2005 - Tuesday, August 30, 2005
World No Tobacco Day 31st May 2005. Intervention of health professionals crucial in reducing 1500 lung cancer deaths in Ireland
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Press Statement - 7th February 2005
Irelands first Dedicated Research Institute into a range of Tobacco Issues and Behaviours Launched
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Minister Sean Power's Address at RIFTFS Launch
Minister Sean Power, Chairman of RIFTFS, and Guests Good morning. I am delighted to be here this morning to say a few words on behalf of our Chairman, Dr Michael Boland, the Board Members and staff of the Office of Tobacco Control. Let me begin by extending on behalf of Dr. Boland his apologies, as he would have wished to be here but for a prior engagement, which he had to attend. Dr. Boland would like me to convey his very best wishes to RIFTFS for today’s event and every success for the future with their research work.
The Office of Tobacco Control recognised that research would be fundamental to the Office’s role as the national statutory body with responsibility for advising the Minister for Health and Children and the Government on tobacco control policies and strategies.
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Press Article - March 2004
MOST bar owners and pub goers declared Ireland's smoking ban a breathtaking success today, a day after the country became the first in the world to outlaw tobacco in workplaces.
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