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In 2004, Ireland was the first European country to ban smoking in pubs and restaurants. Today

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it's on Dublin streets that you can find smokers. Tommy Smith owns a pub in the capital. He

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remembers the time, three years earlier, when the anti-smoking law came into force.

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Oh, I said, oh my God, this is never going to work. And I said, this is going to be very,

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very difficult to enforce. But thankfully, it wasn't.

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And I have to say, I'm very proud of the way that the Irish people have accepted it.

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For Tommy and John, who have never smoked, the new law was a relief. Passive smoking

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kills more than 79,000 adults a year in Europe. But what do actual smokers think?

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It was a bit of a shock. I would smoke, say, about 60 cigarettes a day. So the smoking

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ban was brilliant. We realised it was very important and we realised it's the best thing

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that ever happened.

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Where I smoked the most amount of cigarettes was when I was in a pub. So coming to a pub

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was always the hardest part of giving up cigarettes. I stopped smoking.