The HSE will support its management and staff to fully engage with and support this framework with a view to understanding their own roles in its implementation.

The framework has six national standards based on the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008. That report outlines the MPOWER package, a package of the six most important, effective and evidence based tobacco control policies which are:
Monitoring of tobacco use and prevention policies,
Protecting people from second-hand smoke,
Offering help to people who want to quit,
Warning of the dangers of tobacco,
Enforcing bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and
Raising taxes on tobacco.