Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Declan Connolly:
I do not have data as to the age of people who started smoking in the last few years. I have not seen that data published. I do have the latest smoking data from the Healthy Ireland report that was published in 2021. It contains some interesting figures. The rate of smoking among 15- to 24-year-olds remained the same, at 15%, between 2019 and 2021. It would be nice to see how-----