Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)

11:45 am

Ms Danielle Gayson:

Young people have heard the facts and what smoking can do but the information comes from adults, and they would never really believe that this can happen. Peer-led programmes, with young people telling other young people what can happen, could be effective. If people know somebody who is troubled by smoking, there is more potential to believe the facts than if a teacher or somebody older conveys those facts.

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