# smoking - Today’s News
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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# smoking - Saturday 28 October, 2017
The majority of Irish people say they are in good health, though over 60% are overweight or obese.
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# smoking - Sunday 22 October, 2017
The new ban follows a clean-up of nearly 140,000 cigarette butts from a 2.5 kilometre stretch of the famed Patong beach in Phuket.
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# smoking - Saturday 21 October, 2017
We need truthful information on the relative risks of cigarettes compared to the various smoke-free alternative products, writes David T Sweanor.
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# smoking - Monday 3 July, 2017
The Charities Regulator sold off its shares this year.
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# smoking - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
Children from deprived areas are twice as likely to inhale second-hand smoke as children from more affluent backgrounds.
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We need smoking prevention efforts to ensure smoking rates continue to drop among all young people, writes Donal Buggy.
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# smoking - Thursday 13 April, 2017
This would make the country only the second to do so, after Uruguay.
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# smoking - Monday 10 April, 2017
Ireland’s health authority has recommended that the government wait for more studies before endorsing e-cigarettes.
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# smoking - Friday 7 April, 2017
Smoking is directly related to more than 5,600 deaths in Ireland every year.
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# smoking - Wednesday 15 March, 2017
A new report differentiates between occasional and daily smokers.
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# smoking - Wednesday 1 March, 2017
One in every two smokers will die of a tobacco-related disease – pharmacists want to buck this trend.
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