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HSE to roll out new service to help people quit vaping amid worrying rise in users
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The latest figures show that more than a third of young people aged 13 to 16 years vape
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Teachers concerned students are buying highly addictive nicotine pouches due to 'legal loophole'
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These pouches, which are similar to snus but don’t contain tobacco, don’t have an age restriction on them
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Teens used by the HSE as test purchasers in crackdown on illegal sale of vapes to minors
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A HSE officer revealed that the teen recruits are usually "someone’s daughter or son or niece or nephew"
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Irish general election 2024: Fianna Fáil to increase cost of vapes each year if returned to Government
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Election 2024: Fianna Fáil to increase cost of vapes each year in manifesto
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Vape e-liquid price to double as major tax set in Budget 2025 - and more bad news for smokers
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A 50c tax per ml means standard bottles used for reusable vapes will now be €5 more expensive.
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Underage Dublin teen buys vapes all over town with not one ID check in shocking expose
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Exclusive - New laws banning the sale of tobacco products to under 18s came into effect last December. But our teen bought brightly-coloured, sweet flavoured vape pens as easily as confectionary in a shop, a supermarket and a petrol station.
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Outlets to be hit with €2,000 on-the-spot fine for selling vapes at children's events from today
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The measures form part of the Health Minister’s strategy to introduce stricter regulation of nicotine inhaling products and to eliminate the use of tobacco products
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Doctors call for HHC drug ban amid ‘explosion’ in addiction among young people
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HHC, which produces similar effects to THC, is currently available in vapes and edibles in Ireland but is not subject to any legal restriction
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Cabinet approves ban on sale of disposable vapes and restrictions on colours and flavours in Ireland
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There will also be a prohibition on point-of-sale display and advertising in shops other than those that only or primarily sell these products
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Cabinet to hear proposals to ban disposable and flavoured vapes
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Sources said that that single-use vapes are “relatively inexpensive” and are “often an impulse purchase in shops and disproportionately used by younger people who often experiment with them”
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Vape warning as Irish study suggests cancer and lung injuries 'almost a certainty' for long-term users
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Flavoured vapes mimicking fruit, candy and dessert flavours are the most concerning, Professor of Chemistry at RCSI and lead author of the study Dr Dónal O’Shea said
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Vape retailers in Ireland could be fined €2,000 for not following this regulation
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Enforcement campaigns are now underway across the distribution and retail sector to ensure companies supplying vapes are in compliance with the regulations
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Tánaiste 'hopes' Ireland could replicate UK's ban on disposable vapes
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced this week that he will ban disposable vapes. While it is already illegal to sell vapes to under-18s in the UK, the Conservative Party leader has outlined his plans to ban them
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Warning issued after man who ingested vaping liquid dies from nicotine poisoning
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A new case report warns that the growing popularity of e-cigarettes is likely to lead to more instances of poisoning and death
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Ban on sale of vapes to under-18s to come into effect on Friday
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Anyone who is in breach of the new law could face a fine of up to €4,000 and/or six months in jail
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Number of young people vaping is a 'retrograde step', Tánaiste says
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin was Health Minister in 2004 when the Government banned smoking in pubs, workplaces and other indoor areas
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Cork teens fall ill 'after vaping cannabis products' as emergency crews rush to school
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Gardai are understood to have seized a number of vapes after four teenage male youths suddenly fell ill at a school in Fermoy, Co Cork on Wednesday.
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Under-18s will no longer be able to buy disposable vapes after new law passes
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It paves the way for a total ban on all disposable vapes which is expected to be passed sometime next year after EU approval rubberstamps it
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GAA clubs around Ireland impose vaping ban because of health worries around e-cigarettes
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St Fechin's GAA in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth is the latest club to erect signage forbidding the use of vapes
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar confirms Government will look at banning vapes in schools
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that a proposal to ban the use of vapes in schools "had some merit"
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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly sets out plan to prohibit sale of vapes to children in 'coming weeks'
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Exclusive: Stephen Donnelly speaks exclusively to the Irish Mirror as part of our campaign
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Calls for vapes to only be made available on prescription
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Fianna Fail senator Malcolm Byrne wants the unregulated products put under the counter and available in chemists only
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Top cancer specialist slams tobacco industry for targeting kids with vapes
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'The tobacco industry’s customers die out due to smoking, so they need new ones'
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Met Eireann's Joanna Donnelly slams 'poison' vapes as she calls for total ban
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The Met Eireann and RTÉ weather forecaster is the mother of three kids - Nicci, 20, Tobias, 15, and Casper, 13 - and said she ‘is highly in favour’ of the campaign to ban the addictive pens to protect the kids of Ireland.
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