Statement from ASH Ireland, 19 November
2010
ASH IRELAND WELCOMES REDUCTION OF AWARENESS OF SMOKING
AS A RESULT OF RETAIL PROMOTION BAN
ASH Ireland welcomes the research, published today, which shows
that the removal of point of sale advertising here last year is
significan...
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 ...
(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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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).
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.
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.
Ireland & Northern Ireland National Cancer Institute
Consortium newsletter. A periodic update of progress
and events. Renewed memorandum of understanding continues
consortium momentum.
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.
The res...
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 J...
€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 Cha...
New evidence shows the limits of a smoking ban.
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, wh...
Dear Editor,
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.
The High Court (Mr Justice R...
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...
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% reducti...
PRESS RELEASE
Issue Date: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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...
Statement from ASH Ireland
28 February 2006
Pre ASH Wednesday Statement
Vintners Circumvent the Legislation and Encourage Smoking
ASH Ireland is seriously concerned about the proliferation of
smoking rooms in many pubs in Dublin and around the country.
As many peop...
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
At today's (Monday, 10 October) launch of the OTC...
ASH Ireland Welcomes Positive Smoking Figures - but is concerned
that lack of Price Increases is set to Unravel all that has been
achieved
ASH Ireland has welcomed the positive smoking related statistics
released to-day by the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC). These
figures once again emp...
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 numb...
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.
"There is a dramatic ...
INTERVENTION OF HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS CRUCIAL IN REDUCING 1500 LUNG CANCER DEATHS IN
IRELAND.
In Ireland 1500 people die from lung cancer every year and this
figure will not drop for the next twenty years unless some of those
who presently smoke give up their habit.
Speaking on the...
Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Mr
Seán Power TD, launched the Research Institute for a Tobacco Free
Society in the Digital Hub, Dublin today (7th February).
Minister Sean Power, who launched R.I.F.T.F.S. today said, "The
Tobacco Free Research Institute will be...
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 apolo...
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.
Publicans, the government and anti-smoking activists agreed
Ireland's largely trouble-free introduction of the...