HSE Health and Wellbeing
Each year in Ireland, over 4,500 people die due to smoking. Each week in our hospitals, almost 1,000 admissions are smoking-related.1 These numbers are stark and are a reminder that Ireland is still deep in an epidemic of smoking-related harm. Approximately, 1-in-5 (18%) adults currently smoke with men being more likely to smoke than women, […]
Tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland causing almost 100 deaths each week and results in significant costs to the health service in treating illness caused by tobacco. In 2023, the HSE Stop Smoking Services engaged with over 19,000 people who wanted support to quit smoking. It follows significant investment […]