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12th March 2014
From Northern Ireland: Call to stub it out on No Smoking DayBelfast City Council is urging more businesses to sign up to their free service which has helped more than 1,000 people quit smoking in the last five years.
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12th March 2014
Smoke(less) signals: why we’re vaping nowMore than 50,000 Irish smokers have swapped tobacco for electronic vapour. But is it really safe? By Chrissie Russell
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12th March 2014
Drug rehab centres hit by social welfare cutsBudgetary cuts are undermining rehabilitation projects which offer a “lifeline to drug users, their families, and communities”.
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12th March 2014
E-cigarettes banned from DART and train servicesElectronic cigarettes are now banned from all DART and train services.
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11th March 2014
From the US: Legal pot brings in $2m in taxesColorado made roughly 2 million dollars (£1.2 million) in taxes on marijuana in January, state revenue officials reported in the world’s first accounting of the recreational pot business.
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11th March 2014
Two units of alcohol a week risks foetusJust two alcoholic drinks a week in early pregnancy may increase the risk of having a premature or small baby, and it is middle-class women who are most likely to drink more than this.
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11th March 2014
ADDICTION – A public conversation eventIn Ireland, we have an addiction problem. We can’t argue with that. Have we ever talked about it?
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6th March 2014
Age Action welcomes campus smoking ban exemption for some nursing homesA move to exempt some nursing home residents from the HSE’s smoke free campuses policy has been welcomed by Age Action.
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6th March 2014
TD criticises hard-hitting UN attack on legalising cannabisThe semi-judicial agency charged with enforcing international drug treaties said such moves posed “a grave danger to public health”.
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5th March 2014
Smokers urged to kick the habit on National No Smoking DayToday, Ash Wednesday, is national ‘No Smoking Day’ and the Irish Heart Foundation is encouraging people - including those who smoke only occasionally - to stop.
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