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Smoking ban on cards for beaches and parks

Health Minister James Reilly wants to ban smoking in parks and on beaches in a bid to discourage children from taking up the habit.

Opening the Irish Heart Foundation’s Council on Stroke in Dublin yesterday, Dr Reilly said he did not want children to regard smoking as a normal practice.

The minister has signalled he wants to ban smoking in cars where children are present, but revealed yesterday he plans to go further.

He wants to follow the lead of New York in banning smoking in parks and on beaches.

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Source: Evelyn Ring, Irish Examiner, 22/04/2012

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