National No Smoking Day
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The campaign to stop smoking comes to Dublin city centre on National No Smoking Day.

Reporter Peter MacNiff is on Moore Street in Dublin on Ash Wednesday and asks the street traders about what they have given up for Lent.

Speaking at a promotion of the ‘National Knockout’ campaign Donal O’Shea outlines some of the successes to date with a decline in the number of smokers.

Interview with Harry Grawley Director of the HEB describing the different kinds of smokers who have many different reasons for giving up the habit.

Interview with Avril Gillatt, Information Officer with the Irish Cancer Society, comments on the growing problem of young people smoking and how the campaign to stop smoking should focus on them.

The reporter is Peter McNiff.