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The Irish Heart Foundation has said it supports calls for Ireland to extend the smoking ban to a number of public areas.

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Mr Berman has been smoking since he was 15 and has lived through all of Australia’s reforms. “Back then you could smoke on trains, in cinemas, everywhere really,” he says.