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18th August 2014
The ethical minefield of arts sponsorship“A title sponsorship is someone who has an immediate brand association at the naming level,” he says. Examples of that would be the Jameson Dublin Film Festival, which has become embedded in how punters refer to the festival: JDiff. Then there is KBC Great Music in Irish Houses and Sky Cat Laughs.
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18th August 2014
Reform more radical than ‘war on drugs’Shortcomings in the repressive-only approach is forcing a change of tactics
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15th August 2014
There is no safe level of smokingWe’ve heard the warnings and we know the dangers. Smoking most definitely kills.
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15th August 2014
Plain packaging works: Australia shows fastest decline in smoking rates in over 20 yearsOpinion: Ireland needs similar result if the Government’s policy to make the country tobacco free by 2025 is to be achieved
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15th August 2014
Legalising drugs is the only way to win this warThree years ago, the UN Global Commission on Drug Policy announced that the world had lost the long war against illegal drugs. Its 22 eminent members concluded that there remained only one feasible response: legalise the trade.
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14th August 2014
The end of the ‘war on drugs’?We are in the midst of a period of unprecedented debate within policy circles regarding addiction. David Lynch investigates new statistics and talks to academics and doctors
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14th August 2014
Tobacco producing countries will battle packs lawTobacco producing nations are expected to challenge Ireland’s move to outlaw branded tobacco packaging, the new junior jobs minister has been warned by his department.
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13th August 2014
Charities criticise bid to stop law on plain tobacco packsHealth charities have reacted angrily to attempts by German business groups and MEPs to derail Ireland’s planned ban on branded tobacco products.
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12th August 2014
Opinion: Fighting the tobacco giants - Government should defy lobbyistsTobacco conglomerates spent decades challenging the science that proved nicotine was addictive. They dishonestly spent decades rubbishing the science that identified their products as cancerous and the root cause of fatal diseases.
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12th August 2014
Plain tobacco packets ‘will hurt recovery’Enda Kenny is facing pressure from German politicians, businesses and campaigners to scrap plain packaging tobacco proposals, with one group warning the plan could threaten Ireland’s financial recovery.
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