The Government must put anti-smoking services under a central body and provide training for all healthcare professionals, anti-smoking campaigner Prof Luke Clancy said yesterday.
Prof Clancy, a leading advocate of the 2004 workplace smoking ban, said Ireland had underachieved in relation to tobacco addiction since the ban.
He accused the last government of a misplaced concern for exchequer revenue in not increasing the price of cigarettes.
He also criticised former minister for health Mary Harney, who he said had withdrawn funding which had been approved by her predecessor Brian Cowen and had “turned her back” on his Tobacco Free Research Institute Ireland.
Source: The Irish Times, 22/03/2011
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