From Saturday 20 May 2017, all tobacco sold in Northern Ireland must be in new-style ‘plain’ packaging. Cigarettes and tobacco will no longer be sold in bright, glitzy packs but will be in drab green packages with larger picture warnings about the dangers of smoking. This follows a year’s grace peri...
Northern Ireland celebrated the 10th anniversary of the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces and workplaces on April 30, 2017. Leading local charity Cancer Focus Northern Ireland said that the smoking ban was one of the most important steps towards a healthier population in the last decade. The...
Cancer Focus NI warmly welcomes the Department of Health’s consultation on banning smoking in cars when children are present. Gerry McElwee, Head of Cancer Prevention at Cancer Focus NI, said: “Cancer Focus NI has campaigned on tobacco issues for many years and is working towards a tobacco-fre...
Mid-Ulster school children have handed more than 5,000 signatures from pupils all over Northern Ireland to Health Minister Michelle O’Neill calling for the immediate introduction of regulations to ban smoking in cars carrying children. Cancer Focus NI is at the forefront of campaigning for the ban....
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has congratulated local MLAs and MPs who have worked at Stormont and Westminster to develop significant tobacco control legislation to help protect future generations from tobacco. Under the UK’s standardised ‘plain’ packaging of cigarettes legislation, which comes into...
