Laws raising the legal purchasing age of tobacco goods to 21 must be authorised by the government, reports RTE.
Stephen Donnelly, the Minister of Health, is submitting a document with the final, historic legislation for Cabinet approval.
In his words, Ireland had “done well on reducing the smoking rates over many years.” Mr. Donnelly stated this, reports RTE.
He did, however, note that although the smoking rate has decreased, it has stabilised in recent years.
Speaking before the Cabinet meeting, Mr. Donnelly expressed his “special concern about children and teenagers who are smokers.”
“We’ve had a big move on vaping and we’ve more legislation coming there but we want to continue to see the smoking rates come down and by moving the smoking age to 21, we know from other countries abroad that it works and we know from the research that it can have a big effect really on two groups,” reports RTE.
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