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Volume 350:2231-2233 May 27, 2004 Number 22 Next

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On March 29, 2004, the Irish government implemented a law banning smoking in the workplace. This was the first law of its kind in Europe and represented the culmination of many decades of antismoking legislation and campaigning.

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View larger version (69K): [in this window] [in a new window]   In the Aftermath of the Irish Smoking Ban. Photograph by Fran Veale, Getty Images.

 
As early as the 16th century, people in Ireland recognized the problems with tobacco consumption. One of the earliest references to these problems was by the priest and poet Brian Mac Giolla Phadraig, who, lamenting the decline of his native country, attributed it at least in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.

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