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Launch of Healthy Ireland- A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013 - 2025

Healthy Ireland, a new government framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland over the coming generation was launched today (28 March 2013). Healthy Irelandsets out a wide framework of actions that will be underta
Department of Health and Children (ie)
added Apr 4, 2013 09:59
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[Ireland] Plan to renew measures on tobacco, alcohol and sugar

Minister Reilly stated at the publication of ‘Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025’, that he intended to bring a memo to Government shortly on a move towards plain-packaged cigarette boxes as an extra measure to the g
Irish Medical Times (ie)
added Apr 4, 2013 07:18
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[Ireland] Third of tobacco smuggling convictions imposed on international criminals

Among those convicted were a Latvian man who got a two-month custodial sentence, and smugglers from Bulgaria, Poland, Moldova and China, who got shorter prison sentences. The figures showed there were 124 convictions in Ireland in 2012 related to illega
Irish Times (ie)
added Apr 2, 2013 12:01
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[Ireland] Minister moves on plain cig packaging

Health Minister James Reilly has said he will bring a memorandum to Government shortly to provide for the introduction of plain packaging on tobacco products. The Minister said under the proposal, cigarette packets would no longer have branded logos on
IrishHealth.com (ie)
added Apr 2, 2013 09:01
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[Ireland] Reilly wants every cigarette to cost €1 in anti-smoking drive

He was speaking at the launch of the "Healthy Ireland" document which aims to improve the nation's lifestyle habits and get all government departments working together to make it easier for people to give up some of their sins. However, the document, wh
Irish Independent (ie)
added Mar 29, 2013 14:27
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[Ireland] Reilly to bring memo on plain packaging for tobacco products to Cabinet

Minister for Health James Reilly has said he hopes to bring a memo to Cabinet shortly on plain packaging for tobacco products. He made the announcement as he published a plan of 64 actions to improve the health and well-being of people in the country. T
RTÉ Online [Radio Telefís Éireann] (ie)
added Mar 28, 2013 12:48
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[Ireland] Smoking linked with cervical pre-cancer

Catherine Reilly spoke with TCD’s Dr Cara Martin about new joint research from teams at Trinity College Dublin and the Coombe, which has shown that women who smoke are at greater risk of HPV infection.
Irish Medical Times (ie)
added Mar 27, 2013 10:02
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[Ireland] GANTLY: Cigarettes, but not alcohol

But what about alcohol? This country’s dysfunctional relationship with alcohol costs us financially more than €3 billion a year, an estimated 2,000 hospital beds a night and millions in lost productivity, as well as the innumerable social and personal co
Irish Medical Times (ie)
added Mar 22, 2013 13:00
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[Ireland] Black market cigarette trade on the increase

CIGARETTE-smuggling continues to soar in Ireland, with new Department of Finance figures showing that tobacco excise tax receipts are falling dramatically short of targets, even though taxes have increased and the number of people smoking has remained co
Irish Independent (ie)
added Mar 17, 2013 10:32
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[Ireland] Irish teenagers smoking and drinking less

"The percentage of children aged 10-17 who report never smoking has increased from 50.8 per cent in 1998 to 73.5 per cent in 2010," it says. However, Traveller children, those with disabilities or chronic illness and poor children are more likely to smo
Irish Times (ie)
added Mar 8, 2013 13:20
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