Seanad debates

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

5:20 pm

Photo of Sean BarrettSean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister mentioned a website that would contain a list of appalling ingredients in the product we seek to control. Listening to the dialogue between two members of the medical profession, could we include something in an amendment on Report Stage that if concerned about smoking, people could look up stopsmoking.com- a website which would give them all the information that would not fit on the sheet the Minister fears some people would throw away when they purchase a packet of cigarettes? A reference to the website would be very valuable because we know information would be used by cigarette companies in all sorts of way to attract new people.

We should provide a source of information and research, for example, stopsmoking.com, to inform people of all the toxic ingredients of tobacco and the appalling damage the product can do. This may be a way around the predicament that the Minister and Senator Crown, two members of the medical profession, have been discussing.

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