Ireland’s approach to tobacco control is broken. While other nations witness tangible decreases in their smoking rate (see examples below), the number of Irish people who smoke has started to increase again. There is no question that the ‘Tobacco Free Ireland’ goal...

Dr. Garrett McGovern, Medical Director and Founder of the Priority Medical Clinic is not surprised with the RedC findings, which reveal that 96% of vapers would go back smoking or buy flavours abroad if a ban on flavoured vapes was introduced. The leading expert in...

Survey shows a flavoured vapes ban will push vapers back to smoking Majority of vapers against an outright ban on flavoured vapes Ban will create black market for unregulated products A new survey reveals that 96% of vapers in Ireland would not favour an outright ban...

The report concluded that changes in prevalence of e-cigarette use in England have been positively associated with the overall quit rates and quit success rates but not clearly associated with the prevalence of quit attempts and mean cigarette consumption.

Red C conducted an on-street survey of vapers in Ireland to understand how vapers would react to a ban on flavoured vapes. Read on for the full survey.

University College London study of 37,000 young people finds no increase in smoking as vape use grows Irish experts must include vaping as an effective way to quit tobacco. Respect Vapers welcomes the new study published in the UK which reports that vaping is not a...

People who vape to quit smoking support the call for Government to review its Tobacco Free Ireland policy. Last week, Dr Paul Kavanagh, Specialist in Public Health Medicine and Chair of the new ‘stop smoking’ clinical guidance development group, said there should be...

TO THE HEALTH COMMITTEE: Respect Vapers, which represents over 200,000 people who use vaping to quit smoking, is deeply concerned that the members of the Health Committee has, yet again, opted to exclude people who vape from the Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Public...

Briefing from Clive Bates, Director of Counterfactual: Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill Dear Health Committee members, I write as former Director of Action on Smoking and Health in the UK and currently as an advocate for harm reduction as a...