# smoking - Wednesday 20 November, 2019
The number of smokers in Ireland has fallen again, with 17% of the nation smoking according to the latest Healthy Ireland survey.
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# smoking - Tuesday 19 November, 2019
More than 1,000 cases of vaping-related lung illnesses have been reported in the US, with 42 confirmed deaths in 24 states.
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# smoking - Tuesday 12 November, 2019
At 16 years old, he required an exterior artificial lung to put oxygen into the blood
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# smoking - Tuesday 29 October, 2019
No-smoking policies are being flouted at Dublin’s maternity hospitals.
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In 2013, the Coombe, the Rotunda and the National Maternity Hospital became tobacco-free campuses.
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# smoking - Saturday 5 October, 2019
18 deaths and 1080 injuries in the US have been linked to vaping.
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# smoking - Sunday 29 September, 2019
E-cigarettes are not harmless, but now is not the time for mass hysteria, writes Professor Des Cox.
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# smoking - Friday 20 September, 2019
Revenue has intercepted a number of illegal cigarette shipments in recent weeks.
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# smoking - Saturday 14 September, 2019
Several teenagers have been placed in medically induced comas.
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# smoking - Monday 29 July, 2019
The legislation will be considered by government in September.
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# smoking - Monday 22 April, 2019
On 4 July 2012, Beaumont Hospital became a “tobacco-free campus”.
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# smoking - Monday 18 March, 2019
The US Food and Drug Administration has declared youth e-cigarette use as an epidemic in the country.
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# smoking - Saturday 2 March, 2019
‘We don’t want to solve the problems of current smokers by creating a whole new generation of smokers that the tobacco companies can prey on,’ writes Dr Des Cox.
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# smoking - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
Researchers say pregnant women who hide their smoking habit don’t get the level of monitoring they require.
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# smoking - Saturday 5 January, 2019
About 500,000 people in Ireland have COPD, but half of them likely do not know they have the condition.
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# smoking - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
Quitting smoking can be difficult, but having clear goals and support networks to help with motivation can help chances for success.
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# smoking - Monday 31 December, 2018
Over 1,700 packets were sold in the year to 15 October.
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# smoking - Sunday 11 November, 2018
COPD, more commonly known as bronchitis or emphysema, is primarily caused by smoking.
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# smoking - Thursday 8 November, 2018
Smoking increased a woman’s risk of a heart attack by 55% more than it increased the risk in a man.
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# smoking - Saturday 1 September, 2018
Dr Des Cox writes about the impact that social smoking has on your health, and why people need to quit smoking altogether.
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# smoking - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
Some of the effects were similar to those seen in regular smokers and people with chronic lung disease.
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# smoking - Sunday 29 July, 2018
Critics state the Courts Services continued investment in the tobacco industry flies in the face of the government’s Tobacco Free Ireland vision.
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# smoking - Saturday 21 July, 2018
New research shows that babies can be at an increased risk of cot death if exposed to cigarettes or e-cigarette smoke while in the womb.
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# smoking - Thursday 31 May, 2018
A quarter of all men and 20% of women in Ireland smoke.
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# smoking - Sunday 27 May, 2018
A new US study found workers were three times more likely to quit if there was a financial incentive.
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# smoking - Wednesday 2 May, 2018
The study was conducted between the years of 1995 and 2015 and shows a decline in adolescent smoking.
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# smoking - Saturday 14 April, 2018
To help draw attention to this Dublin City Council has started a new campaign.
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# smoking - Sunday 8 April, 2018
The findings were published in The Lancet journal this week.
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# smoking - Wednesday 21 March, 2018
The worst offender was Stranger Things with 182 scenes with cigarettes.
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# smoking - Sunday 25 February, 2018
Would you agree with a ban?
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# smoking - Sunday 4 February, 2018
Although smoking rates are declining, smoking-related deaths remain the leading cause of avoidable deaths in this country, writes Dr Des Cox.
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# smoking - Friday 2 February, 2018
The driver had reportedly been smoking which caused ‘dangerous substances’ in his van to catch fire.
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# smoking - Thursday 1 February, 2018
There will be three designated “smoking shelters” created for smokers to go.
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# smoking - Sunday 21 January, 2018
The HSE figures relate to the first three quarters of last year.
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# smoking - Sunday 7 January, 2018
Quitting smoking is top of the list.
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# smoking - Saturday 6 January, 2018
A new study showed the benefits
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# smoking - Wednesday 3 January, 2018
One in eight people who smoked this time last year have since quit.
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# smoking - Sunday 31 December, 2017
Married women with children reported the largest increase in well-being.
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# smoking - Sunday 12 November, 2017
The worms exhibit behavioral responses to nicotine similar to what mammals experience.
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# smoking - Saturday 4 November, 2017
Japanese companies are offering non-smoking staff an additional six days paid annual leave to make up for the breaks smokers take, writes Jason O’Callaghan.
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