Minister for Health Simon Harris and Minister of State at the Department of Health Catherine Byrne have welcomed the publication of the 2017 Annual Report on the Tobacco Free Ireland Action Plan.
Tobacco Free Ireland was launched under the Healthy Ireland framework in 2013 and sets a target for Ireland to be tobacco free (that is, with a smoking prevalence rate of less than 5%) by the year 2025. A high level action plan for Tobacco Free Ireland was published in March 2015 and one of these actions committed the Department of Health to publish an annual report on the implementation of the plan.
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