Seanad debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed).
Like Senator Feighan, I hope everyone will stand firm on the smoking ban in licensed premises. Like many other Senators it appears, I spent a good part of my youth working in pubs and although I have never smoked, I am waiting for it to catch up with me. Employers owe it to their employees and are obliged under health and safety at work regulations to give them a safe working environment – the strongest argument for the ban. When the Minister of State examines these risk areas, he might also examine the promiscuous use of sunbeds. Perhaps promiscuous is the wrong adverb to use because I refer only to the health effects of sunbeds, rather than any other effects.
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