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Ireland bans smoking in pubs and restaurants

BMJ 2004; 328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0404137b (Published 01 April 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;328:0404137b
  1. Thomas MacMahon1
  1. 1Dublin

Ireland will become the first country in the European Union to ban smoking in all pubs and restaurants when new regulations come into force on 29 April as part of a wider ban on smoking in the workplace.

Exemptions have been granted to prisons, nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, and hotel bedrooms after extensive …

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