Mater Private: Where there’s smoke there’s a problem

Dr Sarah Landers says smoking is the single biggest cause of disease and death in Ireland.

WHEN Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco from the Americas to Europe in the late 16th century, little did he know the impact it would have on our nation’s health.

Although, even then, some were already suspicious that the effects were bad including James I, king of England, who said that it was “hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.”