200,000 less smoking than six years ago

The number of smokers in Ireland has dropped by almost 200,000 in the last six years, a major conference on European tobacco control has heard.

The two-day conference entitled 'Change in the Air': Future Directions in Tobacco Control in the EU began in Limerick today and is being hosted by the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) to coincide with Ireland's Presidency of the European Union.