Ninety-four per cent of eight to 12-year-olds have a smartphone. Stock image. Photo: Getty
When Ireland became the first country to ban smoking in workplaces and indoor public spaces 20 years ago, the health minister at the time, Micheál Martin, dismissed criticism it wouldn’t work.
“I get a sense that this is an initiative whose time has come,” he said.
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