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Ban on sale of cigarettes and vapes from self-service vending machines from next September

Research shows that vape vending machines are associated with younger people smoking.

HEALTH MINISTER STEPHEN Donnelly has today commenced sections of the law to ban the sale of tobacco and vaping products by self-service, which will come into effect in September 2025. 

The current law on the sale of tobacco products through vending machines requires the use of discs or cards provided by staff, and for staff to be present overnight, but now the practice will be totally outlawed. 

Evidence from the National Environmental Health Service – the authority for the tobacco control law – shows that self-service vending machines that sell these products are more accessible to minors than over the counter sales. 

Donnelly noted that this decision has been made on World No Tobacco Day. 

“We are continuing to denormalise the sale of tobacco products to make it clear that a product that kills one out of every two of its users is not like other consumer products. We are also banning the sale of nicotine inhaling products by self-service to further tighten the availability and the advertising of these products,” the Minister further said. 

Minister of State over Public Health and the National Drugs Strategy, Colm Burke, said that there is evidence that the density of retail outlets selling tobacco products is associated with young people smoking, and that it presents a risk factor for relapse by smokers who have quit. 

“Reducing that density is an important step to protect our young people and to assist those who have made the important decision to quit,” Burke said.

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:39 PM

    A perfect metaphor for today’s Russia…

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    Dec 13th 2018, 8:50 AM

    @Paul J. Redmond: a Potemkin village?

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    Dec 13th 2018, 5:10 PM

    @Paul J. Redmond: Are you a racist Father…

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:04 PM

    the late late show had one of them for years until Tubs replaced him!

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    Dec 13th 2018, 8:51 AM

    @Danny G: except it couldnt dance or sing

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    Dec 13th 2018, 10:48 AM

    @Robert Rusk: Still can’t.

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:38 PM

    Should’ve got someone who could actually dance and it might have looked half realistic then. Peter Crouch maybe?

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:53 PM

    Johnny 5 is alive!

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:54 PM

    AWESOM-O

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    Dec 13th 2018, 3:50 AM

    @Darren Davis: fart sequence gave him away

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:38 PM

    Cmon now Ted

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    Dec 13th 2018, 8:52 AM

    @Donnacha Bhoicaire: wait a minute … these are FAKE HANDS

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:48 PM

    Did they get it from Western Building Systems?

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:11 PM

    It’s no Boston Dynamics robot that’s for sure…they are getting scary

    https://youtu.be/wXxrmussq4E

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    Dec 13th 2018, 12:03 AM

    @Barry Somers: that’s clearly a dog in a costume!

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    Dec 13th 2018, 1:54 PM

    @Toomasu Sumitsu: shi*t, you are right, it’s clearly a greyhound

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:58 PM

    George Lucas was way ahead of his time

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    Dec 13th 2018, 7:25 AM

    So after years of Russian bots pretending to be people we have Russian people pretending to be Bots.

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    Dec 12th 2018, 9:39 PM

    Should have got peter crouch !

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:04 PM

    It was a give away when he pissed on Trumps bed …

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    Dec 13th 2018, 8:25 AM

    This is clearly a plot by the West to discredit Russia, followers of Putin will be along shortly to explain properly.

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:00 PM

    Chief Knock-A-Homer strikes again

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:00 PM

    Aliexpress?.

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    Dec 13th 2018, 2:55 AM

    It does look like a lad in a costume to be fair haha

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    Dec 12th 2018, 11:24 PM

    Those pesky Russians

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    Dec 13th 2018, 6:05 PM

    Aren’t they all robots?

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    Dec 13th 2018, 5:13 PM

    If they wanted to fool people they wouldn’t have used a commonly used costume, it seems that if they used a Santa clause costume then the same people would find something else to complain about as the same people complain about Russian bot under their beds…

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    Dec 12th 2018, 10:04 PM

    United should sign him up

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