A poll showed 74% of non-smokers and 58% of smokers support the removal of all branding from cigarette packs.
Planned legislation by James Reilly provides for the introduction of large graphic warnings on cigarette packs and makes it illegal for tobacco companies to use colour, text, and packet size to market cigarettes.
The Ipsos MRBI survey was conducted for the ISPCC, Barnardos, the Children’s Rights Alliance, the Asthma Society of Ireland, the Irish Heart Foundation, Irish Cancer Society, and the Irish Thoracic Society.
Dr Reilly said the survey showed people supported the bill because they knew the harm caused by smoking.
He introduced the bill at a meeting of the Oireachtas committee on health and children yesterday.
“I still have images of patients sitting out on the edge of their beds, gasping for breath despite the aid of oxygen, as they slowly lost their ability to breath enough oxygen to survive — horrible suffocation over a period of not hours or days but months,” said Dr Reilly.
Source: Evelyn Ring, Irish Examiner, 06/12/13
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