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Professor Luke Clancy, BSc, MB, MD, FRCPI, FRCP (Edin), FRCP, FFOM, FFPHM, PhD.
Director General, TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland (TFRI) Dublin.
Adjunct Professor TUDublin
Previous appointments included Clinical Director CResT Directorate, St James’s Hospital, Medical Director, Peamount Chest Hospital, and Professor Respiratory Medicine, Dublin University (TCD).
His research is in the area of smoking and health and prevention of respiratory diseases mainly due to air pollution, asthma, cancer and tuberculosis.
He has directed and co-ordinated respiratory research projects and led TFRI in policy-driven research (including the evaluation of ‘Smokefree Ireland’) nationally and internationally with some 300 peer-reviewed publications and numerous published reports, books and chapters in books on air pollution and tobacco control and Tuberculosis.
Starting with reporting the increased mortality associated with the Dublin smog, which led to the ban on burning of bituminous coal and later as Chairman of ASH Ireland he led the Health Alliance which played a significant role in achieving the successful Smokefree legislation in Ireland in 2004,
He is currently PI of the ESPAD Ireland, 2 Horizon 2020 projects and TOB_G. publications are available at https://www.tri.ie/publications.html and Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2407-2263
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PhD
Award Date: 1 Jan 2009
PhD
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E-cigarettes and smoking in Irish teens: a logistic regression analysis of current (past 30-day) use of e-cigarettes
Hanafin, J., Sunday, S. & Clancy, L., Jun 2023, In: Journal of Public Health (Germany). 31, 6, p. 955-966 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of smoking in COVID-19 progression: a comprehensive meta-analysis
Gallus, S., Scala, M., Possenti, I., Jarach, C. M., Clancy, L., Fernandez, E., Gorini, G., Carreras, G., Malevolti, M. C., Commar, A., Fayokun, R., Gouda, H. N., Prasad, V. M. & Lugo, A., 1 Mar 2023, In: European Respiratory Review. 32, 167, 220191.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Use and Awareness of Heated Tobacco Products in Europe
the TackSHS project Investigators, 2022, In: Journal of Epidemiology. 32, 3, p. 139-144 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Increased smoking and e-cigarette use among Irish teenagers: a new threat to Tobacco Free Ireland 2025
Sunday, S., Hanafin, J. & Clancy, L., 1 Oct 2021, In: ERJ Open Research. 7, 4, p. 1-4 5 p., 00438-2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking - A randomised clinical trial
Keogan, S., Li, S. & Clancy, L., 1 Jul 2019, In: Tobacco Control. 28, 4, p. 414-419 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Qualitative Study of E-Cigarette Use Among Young People in Ireland
Clancy, L. (Contributor), Hanafin, J. (Contributor) & Desmond, Y. (Data Manager), Technological University Dublin, 1 Jan 2020
DOI: 10.21427/r5pe-fg09
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