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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

In Northern Ireland, around 114,000 homes moved from permitting smoking to being smoke-free between 2012 and 2019, with 6 out of every 7 homes considered smoke-free by 2019. A ban on smoking in cars with children was subsequently introduced in Ireland in 2014 and in NI in 2022.