International Tobacco Intervention

Ireland

ASH (Action on smoking and health) is a campaigning public health charity working to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

The Office of Tobacco Control is a statutory body, set up following recommendations made in the Tobacco Free Policy Review Group’s report “Towards a Tobacco Free Society” (2000). The Office advises the Minister for Health and Children consults with national and international bodies on developments in tobacco control and organises and disseminates research.

Research Institute for a tobacco free society is a limited company formed on the basis of a partnership between the Office of Tobacco Control and ASH Ireland and its parent organisations The Irish Cancer Society and The Irish Heart Foundation.

The Institute plans to form a transdiciplinary academic community around the issue of tobacco control and to support the development of a tobacco free society by engaging in research in all aspects of tobacco from a public health perspective.

Irish Cancer Society’s website provides smoking related information.