Submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children on Standardised Packaging of Tobacco

Reducing Tobacco-Related Deaths, Disease and Disability in Ireland

The Faculty of Public Health Medicine supports the targets published in the Department of Health's 'Tobacco Free Ireland' policy statement, to reduce smoking prevalence to 5% or less for adults in Ireland by 2025. This document outlines a number of additional recommendations we would like to see included in the final legislation.