Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Would that be the same for heart disease and for all other illnesses? Obviously the 1990s were different in terms of education, more people smoked such as people who started smoking in the 1950s and 1960s who did not know the consequences of it.

With younger people today, there may be more pressures, bombardment or whatever else, but most young people know there are dangers with smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and living an unhealthy lifestyle. There may be issues in changing that and their addictions, but most people know inherently what is good and bad for them that perhaps people who started smoking back in the 1950s and 1960s did not know. Is the level of increase going to be less anyway? That is not to say we should not invest. Absolutely invest, but will the outcomes be slower as we go?