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Jump to full article: A&L Goodbody International Financial Services Centre, 2003-09-16
Intro: The Irish Hospitality Industry Alliance (IHIA) is a broad representative body comprising members from the following sectors: hotels, pubs, restaurants, guest houses, bed and breakfasts, nightclubs, registered clubs and tourism venues. There are some 214,000 persons employed in around 16,400 tourism and hospitality venues in Ireland.
At the outset, the IHIA wish to make clear that smoking is unhealthy, and that the Alliance supports the Government’s broad strategy which aims to reduce the numbers smoking.
The policy rationale for the Government’s proposals to ban smoking in the workplace is based on a report published in January 2003 by the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) for the Department of Health and Children. The report concluded that passive smoking - Environment Tobacco Smoke (ETS) – is carcinogenic i.e. it causes cancer, and current ventilation technologies cannot adequately control worker exposure to ETS.
The purpose of this submission is to carry out a systematic, objective, evidence-based analysis – a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) – of the Government’s proposals to introduce a total ban, with effect from 1 January 2004, on smoking in workplaces, including tourism and hospitality venues. . .
The Government appears set to take a decision to ban smoking in the workplace in the absence of an in-depth research study into the incidence of ETS exposure in workplaces under Irish circumstances.
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