Abstract
On March 29, 2004, the Irish government implemented a law banning smoking in the workplace. This was the first law of its kind in Europe and represented the culmination of many decades of antismoking legislation and campaigning.(Figure)As early as the 16th century, people in Ireland recognized the problems with tobacco consumption. One of the earliest references to these problems was by the priest and poet Brian Mac Giolla Phadraig, who, lamenting the decline of his native country, attributed it at least in part to “a stoc tobac `na clab da lantseideadh” (tobacco pipe in jaw, at full . . .

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