After smoking, ban everything

MICHEÁL MARTIN has received wide acclaim for his crusade against more than one million smokers. But the smoking ban must be only the opening salvo in the war on all carcinogens.

Now that one ban is in place, could Health Minister Mary Harney immediately turn her mind to the many other carcinogens that are killing us and ban them all? The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), supported by the ETA (the inspiration for the smoking ban), have a whole list of carcinogenic substances to which we are being exposed daily.

Here is a very small sample.