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New €2,000 fine for selling nicotine-inhaling products, like vapes, at children's events

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said that there is an urgency to these measures because of the health risk posed by the products.

SELLING NICOTINE-INHALING products like vapes at events aimed at children will carry a €2,000 on-the-spot fine under new legislation.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has signed a law to apply the fine to the offence of selling tobacco products or nicotine-inhaling products at events aimed at children or where the majority of the participants or audience are children. 

The measure under the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023, which was commenced in March, is intended to strengthen the regulation of nicotine-inhaling products and to help efforts to eliminate the use of tobacco products.

In a statement this morning, Donnelly he said that there is an urgency to these measures because of the health risk posed by the products.

“I welcome the coming into operation of further provisions of our 2023 Act. I am developing new tobacco control law, bringing law through the Houses and implementing law that has already passed,” the minister said.

“The urgency is to save lives that are being lost because of a common commercial product that kills,” he said.

“I am determined to help smokers to quit, to prevent new smokers being created through experimentation with tobacco products or nicotine inhaling products and to use every means at my disposal to protect the health of our population and especially of our children.”

Last week, the government approved the drafting of the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) bill, which will regulate packaging, flavours and retail display of vaping products and ban single-use or disposable vapes.

Donnelly is also expected to bring the Public Health (Tobacco) Amendment Bill through the Dáil in the coming weeks, which would make Ireland the first country in the EU to set a minimum legal age of 21 for the sale of tobacco products.

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 8:16 AM

    All for it, isn’t in amazing how quick they can draft up a bill for primary legislation but can’t draft up a bill for other issues in the country which need to be addressed just as urgently

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 8:35 AM

    @Rab.c.nesbitt: You look like ya whip the guitar as house parties and everyone wants to die.

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 10:06 AM

    @Brian O’Brendan: sit boo boo sit

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    Mute another one? what's going on is the semi state sec
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    Sep 23rd 2024, 2:01 PM

    @Brian O’Brendan: Have you never heard of Rab?!?!?….. Showing your age!

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 6:42 PM

    @another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: he’s showing his age ok if he doesn’t know who Rab is, hes only a pup

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 8:07 AM

    Just ban them 100%

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 8:57 AM

    @Trump23: and create a lucrative black market, because prohibition is soooooo successful

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 9:02 AM

    The war war on vapes will go like the war on drugs, a monumental failure

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 1:53 PM

    @Arthur Brophy: Not a good enough reason not to ban them

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 2:17 PM

    @Arthur Brophy: 100% agree with the war on drugs being a complete failure but as long as they keep vapes regulated and legal for adults the black market won’t thrive. they shud legalise and regulate drugs for adults too..

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 9:28 AM

    i see donnelly concerned with the health risks. when is he going to tax fast food and junk food for obese people?

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 10:34 AM

    @Niall English: and Netflix!!! Sitting down to watch a good movie of a winters night…. should be banned

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 4:53 PM

    All the laws in the world are useless if they are not enforced. O’Connell Street, scroats selling heroin whilst Gardai look on!

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 4:27 PM

    This is really unfair on kids addicted to nicotine. Imagine them trying to enjoy Disney on Ice while they’re gummin for a vape. It’s a great way of get them to tuck into fruit too with all the strawberry and watermelon options. This will end up like the pubs except it’ll be the kids who opt to stay at home where they can vape in peace, and at a reasonable price too.

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 11:03 PM

    Bring in a law that requires a prescription from your doctor before you can buy vapes

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 3:03 PM

    I hear joe dolan from the hale shop just let specialist shops sell them his shops are the 1s selling them to kids

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 3:16 PM

    Awlful thing wont know real damage doing for few years sadly. Billionaires out there dont ever wanting smoking to go altogether. If was cure for cancer which how isnt but was vaccine for covid-19 so fast know not same but on control scales
    was .As it is more money in treatment and selling of smoking products and treatments to get you back smoking

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    Sep 23rd 2024, 4:33 PM

    @martin finnegan: ‘ If was cure for cancer which how isnt but was vaccine for covid-19 so fast know not same but on control scales
    was’

    ??

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