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USA: when Irish eyes are smarting
1 Boston, Massachusetts, USA; gregconn@ix.netcom.com
2 New York, NY, USA; dmcgoldrick@TobaccoFreeKids.org
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Irish pubs are best known for their superb Guinness, outstanding music, and pervasive smoking. But, if Irish Minister of Health Michael Martin has his way, smoking will be gone by January 2004 from all Irish workplaces, including restaurants and pubs.
When he announced the legislation last spring, it made headlines throughout America and politicians from Maine to Florida declared, "If Ireland can do it, so can we". As a hidden benefit of the new law, other European nations may emulate the Celtic anti-smoking tiger. But it’s not a done deal. Opposition is strong from pub owners who cite the supposed economic harm that the recent New York City smoking ban has had on its Irish bars.
Over the past few years, I have visited Ireland often, both north and south, exporting elements of the Massachusetts tobacco control successes to my ancestors’ turf. Tom Power, the head of Ireland’s office of
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