Seanad debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed).
I add my voice in strong support of the Government's initiative in relation to smoking in public houses and public places. That is an essential initiative, having regard to the number of deaths from smoking-related illnesses each year. I understand that a majority of patients in St. James's Hospital are there because of smoking-related illnesses. It is not good enough that we, as legislators, should allow a situation to continue whereby people's health is so seriously affected and, indeed, the public purse is adversely affected when we can do something about it. Let us do something about it.
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