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Repro Free: 23/01/2014 The Irish Heart Foundation and Irish Cancer Society lead the coalition for health and children’s charities to urge speedy passing of plain pack law. Sufferers of smoking-related heart attack, lung cancer and chronic respiratory disease urged the Government to enact “crucial” plain packaging of tobacco products legislation as quickly as possible at the start of public hearings at the joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and children on the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill.
Asthma sufferer Rebecca Prior (3) from Dublin is pictured with Breda Flood from Co Wexford, who was first diagnosed with asthma in 1983, Frank Cox, from Dublin, was 66 when he was diagnosed with lung cancer, 50-year-old Paula Newman from Dublin diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) five years ago and Charlotte Heaphey, who suffered a heart attack four years ago, age just 47. Picture Andres Poveda
