Seanad debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed).
Exposure to passive smoking has fallen in the workplace, at home and in public transport, but passive smoking in pubs and clubs affects 47.3% of men and 31.6% of women, another matter to which many Senators testified. There is some improvement in regard to the fall in the rates of cigarette smoking. I have no doubt that the great welcome the Seanad has given to the Minister's proposal to ban smoking in public places will give a decisive push forward on those figures and will set a tremendous public example in regard to cigarette smoking, which would help us to get those figures down even further.
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