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THE HSE HAS released two more ads featuring campaigner Gerry Collins, who died at the weekend following a battle with lung cancer.
The 57-year-old father of three died on Sunday surrounded by his family. The HSE believe his ads have helped 60,000 people attempt to quit this year.
The new ads, which were published online today, see the Wicklow man reflecting his three children and what he loves and admires about them.
“I’ll miss my kids,” the businessman and former GAA coach says. “I will miss not being there when they might need me”.
(Youtube: HSE Ireland)
In the third and final ad, Gerry talks about what he is grateful for in life…
(Youtube: HSE Ireland)
The second two ads in the series were always intended to be broadcast this week to coincide with National No Smoking Day, a HSE spokesperson said.
The original versions of the clips were re-edited in recent days in light of Gerry’s death on Sunday, and they’re being aired on TV today in accordance with the Collins family and Gerry’s wishes.
According to the HSE:
Gerry’s QUIT campaign adverts were created on the shared understanding with Gerry and his family that they would continue to be used after Gerry’s death.
Director General of the Health Services, Tony O’Brien, said that Gerry and his family had made a “unique contribution to the health and wellbeing” of Irish society by working on the campaign.
Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe, HSE National Director for Health & Wellbeing, said:
“Quitting smoking is the best thing that you can do for your health, and if you use one the range of support services available, you can as much as double your chances of your quit attempt succeeding.“Also, if you’ve tried before and it didn’t work, remember most smokers make several attempts before quitting for good. The trick is to keep on trying, because the change you can bring about in your health and your life is worth it.”
The QUITLINE can be contacted on 1800 201 203. There’s also a Facebook support group.
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Jesus Christ. I can’t even try to understand the mentality of these savages.
The men should get the same treatment of death by kerosene
Worse. They should wet those animals down every 30 seconds and then light them up again. To hell with them, savages.
A fired red poker pierced slowly through the back of their skull. For each and every one of them.
Any one fancy a game of pool
You know wat I mean !
These guys deserve to be hung guillotined stoned quartered electrocuted lethally injected but not before some bad treatment first.
If they did it in this country they would have a holiday compared to what’s going to be their punishment in India, but saying that there is something wrong with the way women are treated it will hopefully change quickly because we are all doing some kind of business with them
it really beggars belief in the 21st century this kind of barbaric behaviour is tolerated in any country.
What is even worse is that the Indian governments response is to victim blame and offer advice to girls and women about when they should and should not leave their homes that effectively places a curfew on them. They have increased punishment but most perpetrators get away with it. Nothing done to try and educate these men that what they are doing is wrong. Nothing done to end the utter poverty some castes live in. Shameful
That is so fcked-up. Poor girl.
These rural villages in India are a time warp, its as if you are in the 10century, totally uneducated, illiterate and superstitious they make up the laws and take the law into their own hands.Police corruption is rife there too.Women are at the bottom of the pecking order and new born girl babies are left in the forests to save money for future dowries.
It is beyond my comprehension to think of, or understand, how regularly groups of men wait for, stalk and viciously attack these girls in India. Are they breeding a trait of paedophilia and predilection for abusive violent rape? It just makes no sense whatsoever and makes me so upset to think of how many women have been, and continue to be, abused raped and killed. Can’t the world force them into stopping this…
Animals
Animals wouldn’t do this!
Just light the b@stards up!
It would make one think that the Indian subcontinent would be a better place for women if the British were still ruling it.
Savages. Filthy low life devil worshiping filth
Sub humans,hanging is too good for them.
Seems to happen quite a lot in these backward kips of countries. Hang these murderers in public to make examples of them. Men in these countries have no respect for women, men from all tiers of society and casts. Filthy animals.
Just hang them. Arrest does nothing to deter these ‘men’. Just get rid of them. There is nothing redeemable in them. Their behaviour will not change. Their disdain for other human beings is deeply ingrained from the beginning of life and irreversible. Get rid of them and not only will it free society of the immediate threat they pose, but it will send a heavy message to others who might consider it acceptable to treat another living creature with such contempt disrespect.
Hands up who knew it was India when they read the headline? Something seriously wrong in that country.
Execute all criminals and remove their DNA from the gene pool. Every country. Until there is no more crime. Easys
Is this really the same country that said we treat women poorly?
At first I was horrified and shocked when I read the headline. Then I seen the hashtag on the image and I was no longer shocked, and slightly less horrified if I’m being honest.
Stories like this coming outta India are becoming par for the course. What is wrong with that place?
They deserve to be hung.
What the hell is wrong in India?? Why do they assume they can sexually dominate and abuse women? I don’t mean to be offensive but is it religious or cultural views that lead them to believe they are superior??
-What is going on in India with all these rapes and murders? India seems to have turned into a savage country for women and girls.
-Time to start a boycott of India like what happened with South African apartheid.
-Economic measures seems to be the only way to pressure these countries politicians into taking real measures into what seems to be a cultural problem.
-Shame, shame, shame on Indians everywhere for permitting this to happen…
No respect for women in that part of the world what so ever its sickening what goes on
I tough no one deserved to be killed by a flame thrower or by hungry dogs like in North Korea, until now
Neanderthalistic tribal/religious nutter’s! Hang em all!
Lost for words
Vote to boycott Indian goods and services…
-When there was Apartheid in SA the response from the international community was abysmal.
-The workers in Dunnes Stores mounted a boycott of SA goods.
-People said it was a waste of time inc. government etc.
-its well documented that it made a difference even Mandela said so.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”….
Boycotting won’t make a blind bit of difference, many of these attacks happen in areas of poverty we in Ireland will never understand. It’s like trying to sue someone who’s bankrupt.
I believe an example needs to be made though. I can’t pretend to understand rape and what would drive someone to it, but I can understand that there are sick twisted individuals everywhere, but all of these attacks seem to be by groups. How has it gotten to the stage where groups think it’s Ok to rape and a lot of these attacks happen in public. Worryingly if I’m not mistaken this article said earlier that the govt have recently taken to educating the police in how to deal with such cases.
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