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)
11:55 am
Ms Amy Maher:
It is not the SPHE class that is influencing us as to whether we should or should not smoke. It is more the people around us. Young people feel that if they smoke, they will fit in with their peers, because everyone else is doing it. If they do it once and it is okay, they will continue. Over time they will get addicted. I believe the plain packaging will definitely stop them from starting to smoke.
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