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Office of Tobacco Control
Willow House, Millennium Park
Naas, Co. Kildare
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Tel: 045 852700
Fax: 045 852799
Email: info@otc.ie
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Reports
National Tobacco Retail Audit – 2009 Monitoring Report
Research on the implementation of sales to minors legislation and the extent of tobacco point-of-sale advertising.
The protection of young people before they become addicted to tobacco is a key priority of the report of the Tobacco Free Policy Review Group – Towards a Tobacco Free Society.
This report, Children, Youth and Tobacco: Behaviour, Perceptions and Public Attitudes, explores a number of issues in relation to tobacco among young people and the population as a whole. The analysis helps us to form a picture of the use of tobacco among young people in Ireland today, and informs us of the attitudes and perceptions of young people and adults with regard to tobacco.
Enclosed workplaces became smoke-free by law on the 29 March 2004. This report presents a review of the smoke-free legislation in terms of compliance, public support and health benefits which are already accruing. It indicates that both compliance with smoke-free legislation and support for the smoke-free law among smokers and non-smokers is very high.
The Office commissioned this report to address the concerns raised by the hospitality sector prior to the introduction of the smoke-free legislation. The report presents findings from a national survey of attitudes and opinions as carried out by TNS mrbi. A critical evaluation by two independent economists of published literature on the experiences of other countries that had introduced similar legislation formed the second part of this report. The report was published in February 2004.
This consumer information leaflet provides a summary of the health effects of second-hand smoke, recent steps taken to protect people in the workplace and advice in relation to protecting vulnerable groups.
The Tobacco Free Policy Review Group was set up to carry out a fundamental review of health and tobacco and make recommendations to the Minister for Health and Children. The report was published in March 2000 and subsequently adopted as government policy.
This information leaflet provides an overview of the efforts made to date to combat the tobacco epidemic in Ireland.
The report provides a valuable insight into the differences between genders in their smoking behaviours and attitudes. From a behavioural perspective, cigarettes appeal to both men and women but there are differences in cigarette brand appeal between men and women. Smoking rates for men and women are quite similar, but women are more likely to continue smoking later in life. Peer influence appears to be a strong factor among female smokers. In regard to quitting, female smokers are more influenced by life events and social acceptability issues and are more likely to try to quit than men. However, men are more persistent in their attempts than women and are more likely to succeed. The report was published in August 2003.
In 1986, the US Surgeon General concluded that passive smoking was a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in non-smokers. Since then agreement that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) / second hand smoke is harmful to health has grown steadily among members of the international scientific community. This report was prepared by an independent scientific working group and commissioned by the Health and Safety Authority and the Office of Tobacco Control to ‘identify and report on the degree of consensus that exists among leading international scientific authorities on the question of the hazard and risk posed by ETS to human health in the workplace’. The report was published in January 2003.
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Smoke-free Workplace Compliance Reports
A series of compliance reports have been compiled and published by the Office of Tobacco Control on the smoke-free workplace provisions of the Public Health (Tobacco) Acts, 2002 and 2004, during its first year of implementation. The reports highlight the continuing high levels of compliance with the measure. The one-year report shows 94% of all workplaces inspected under the National Tobacco Control Inspection Programme, co-ordinated by the Office, were smoke-free while 86% of all workplaces were compliant with the requirement for ‘No Smoking’ signage.
Further compliance data is included in Smoke free workplaces in Ireland: A one-year review.
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Smoke-free Workplace Guidance Documents
Guidance for those selling Tobacco Products
This document provides specific guidance to owners, managers and other persons involved in the licensed trade in Ireland on how to comply with their legal obligations under section 47 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Acts. These were distributed to the licensed trade prior to the introduction of the smoke-free legislation.
This document provides employers and managers in all workplaces with guidance on how to comply with their legal obligations under section 47 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Acts.
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Annual Report
The Annual Report outlines details of the Office’s activities, achievements and financial position for the previous year.
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Signs & Posters
This poster provides guidelines for bar staff and other persons involved in the licensed trade regarding enforcement of the smoke-free workplaces legislation.
Section 46 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act, 2002 as amended by the Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Act, 2004 requires “No Smoking” signage to be displayed in all defined workplaces. All signs should include the name of the occupier/owner in charge and the name of the person to whom a complaint should be made in the event of non-compliance.
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Final Monitoring Report 2009
