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16/11/2012
Complete Smoking Ban Called For Lenister House
A campaign has been launched to end smoking on the campus of Leinster House, forcing TDs, senators and Oireachtas staff to go out on the street if they want to light up.
It will mean smokers would be forced outside the gates to Merrion Square or Kildare St, which is frequently under seige from angry protesters.
Senator John Crown, a cancer specialist and ex-smoker, initially called on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to pass an emphatic motion for a complete ban on smoking in the environs of Leinster House.
However, a majority of the other members of the commitee, while supporting the ban, were successful in securing a more toned-down motion which allows for a "process of consultation first".
Dr Crown pointed to its role in cancer, respiratory illesses, heart disease and strokes, adding that he found the sight of people smoking in the carpark "particularly distasteful".
"The HSE is moving towards a model which will be activated in 2015 that there will be no smoking allowed anywhere on the campus of any HSE facility," he said.
"This has already happened in many hospitals," he added. "It would a wonderful flagship move if the country which was the first to ban smoking in the workplace was the first to have a smoke-free parliament."
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It will mean smokers would be forced outside the gates to Merrion Square or Kildare St, which is frequently under seige from angry protesters.
Senator John Crown, a cancer specialist and ex-smoker, initially called on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to pass an emphatic motion for a complete ban on smoking in the environs of Leinster House.
However, a majority of the other members of the commitee, while supporting the ban, were successful in securing a more toned-down motion which allows for a "process of consultation first".
Dr Crown pointed to its role in cancer, respiratory illesses, heart disease and strokes, adding that he found the sight of people smoking in the carpark "particularly distasteful".
"The HSE is moving towards a model which will be activated in 2015 that there will be no smoking allowed anywhere on the campus of any HSE facility," he said.
"This has already happened in many hospitals," he added. "It would a wonderful flagship move if the country which was the first to ban smoking in the workplace was the first to have a smoke-free parliament."
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