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# Cigarettes

Last year
2022
# Tobacco Free Ireland
Poll: Should Ireland impose a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes?
Last year Micheál Martin praised New Zealand’s plans for a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes
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Dec 13th 2022, 10:43 AM
# Banned
New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes
The law says that tobacco cannot ever be sold to anybody born on or after 1 January 2009.
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Dec 13th 2022, 8:54 AM
# budget 2023
Cost of cigarettes to increase but price of a pint remains the same
There will also be pro-rata increases on other tobacco products.
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Sep 27th 2022, 3:45 PM
# Seized
Revenue seizes €5.5 million worth of tobacco and cigarettes
The seizure was made at Dublin Port.
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Aug 30th 2022, 6:33 PM
# holy smokes
Cash, cannabis and millions of cigarettes seized by Revenue in Dublin
The three unrelated seizures came to a combined total value of €7 million.
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May 13th 2022, 5:53 PM
All time
# Revenue
Revenue has seized cannabis, alcohol and cigarettes worth more than €183,000
The cannabis was disguised in packaging as coffee, clothing and custom decals.
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Dec 14th 2021, 4:42 PM
# smoking age
Three-quarters of people want legal age to buy tobacco raised to 21, poll shows
A total of 73% of the people surveyed are in favour of raising the age for the sale of cigarettes from 18 to 21
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Nov 16th 2021, 12:54 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Should shops that sell cigarettes to minors be banned from selling them for a few days?
Shops that sell cigarettes to minors are to be banned for up to a month, under new legislation.
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Nov 8th 2021, 8:46 AM
# Dublin Port
Revenue seizes 9.2 million cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €6.9m
The cigarettes were discovered inside a container using Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner.
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Oct 22nd 2021, 9:15 PM
# budget 2022
Most packets of cigarettes will now cost €15 after 50c tax hike
This is the sixth year in a row the price has increased by that amount.
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Oct 12th 2021, 1:44 PM
# Seizure
Cigarettes worth €2.4 million seized after x-ray search of trailers in Rosslare
The cigarettes were on a road train that arrived from the French port of Dunkirk
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Oct 6th 2021, 12:58 PM
# smugglers
Revenue seize 864,000 illegal cigarettes in Dublin Port search
The cigarettes were onboard a ship that arrived from the Dutch port of Rotterdam.
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Sep 7th 2021, 6:07 PM
# Smuggling
Retailers say spike in seized tobacco hints at 'large-scale' cigarette factories in Ireland
Revenue has announced four major seizures of loose raw tobacco with an estimated retail value of €8.1m.
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Aug 31st 2021, 3:13 PM
# Seizure
Revenue officers seize 320,000 cigarettes at Rosslare
Officers stopped and searched a German-registered van on Saturday that had disembarked a ferry from Cherbourg in France.
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Aug 23rd 2021, 1:03 PM
# Smuggling
Revenue seizes 7.2 million cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €5m
The cigarettes were discovered inside a container using Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner.
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Aug 5th 2021, 5:27 PM
# Seized
Revenue seize tobacco and cigarettes worth €7.3 million at Dublin Port
The consignment had originated in Bulgaria.
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Jul 16th 2021, 12:50 PM
# Cigarettes
Nine in ten smokers pick up the habit by age 25, studies show
New studies examined comprehensive data on smoking trends from 1990 to 2019.
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May 28th 2021, 6:00 AM
# Smokes
The price of a packet of cigarettes is going up by 50 cent
It’s the fifth Budget in a row to see the price increase by that amount.
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Oct 13th 2020, 1:44 PM
# Seized
Cigarettes and tobacco worth €3.8 million seized at Dublin Port
Both shipments originated from Germany.
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Jun 9th 2020, 5:10 PM
# Dublin Port
Revenue seize more than €90,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes at Dublin Port
The cigarettes were concealed behind air conditioning fan fittings that were headed for an address in Dublin.
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May 14th 2020, 10:56 PM
# Cigarettes
60,000 cigarettes and counterfeit clothing seized by gardaí in Donegal
Gardaí carried out a number of searches in Ballyshannon last night.
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May 9th 2020, 2:33 PM
# Rotterdam
8.4 million cigarettes, hidden behind frozen chicken, seized at Dublin Port
The smuggled cigarettes have an estimated value of over €4.1 million.
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May 6th 2020, 10:57 PM
# Smuggling
Nine million cigarettes marked as frozen food seized at Dublin Port
The smuggled cigarettes were discovered in a refrigerated shipping container, declared as transporting frozen food.
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May 5th 2020, 10:35 PM
# Mayo
Gardaí find 20,000 unstamped cigarettes in car at Covid-19 checkpoint
A car was stopped in Bohola in Co Mayo and enquiries were made into the purpose of the driver’s movements.
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Apr 10th 2020, 7:41 AM
# Revenue
Over 10 million cigarettes worth €6 million seized at Dublin Port
They were discovered in a shipping container with the assistance of detector dog Kelly.
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Mar 12th 2020, 8:45 PM
# Dublin Airport
Over 33,000 cigarettes seized by customs officers in Dublin
The cigarettes were seized after officers searched a man who disembarked a flight from Cairo.
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Mar 10th 2020, 9:57 PM
# PROHIBITED
Menthol cigarettes will be banned in Ireland from May
Minister Harris says there is evidence that menthol flavoured cigarettes may be more addictive.
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Jan 4th 2020, 6:30 AM
# Longford
Gardaí seize 34,000 illegally imported cigarettes and tobacco products
The seizure was made during a search at Rathcline Court, Lanesborough in Co Longford.
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Dec 20th 2019, 6:58 PM
# enniscorthy
Over 38,000 cigarettes worth around €26k seized during search of home in Co Wexford
The search was carried out at a home in Enniscorthy yesterday.
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Nov 28th 2019, 8:30 PM
# search warrant
Over €80,000 and 45,000 cigarettes seized at house in Mayo
Revenue officers were today granted a three-month cash detention order.
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Nov 1st 2019, 5:31 PM
# Smoking
Anti-smoking policy at two Dublin maternity hospitals being flouted by patients and visitors
In 2013, the Coombe, the Rotunda and the National Maternity Hospital became tobacco-free campuses.
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Oct 29th 2019, 12:05 AM
# Detector dog
More than 24,000 cigarettes and almost 20kg of tobacco seized by Revenue
The products were seized after two separate searches in Wexford and Tipperary.
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Oct 14th 2019, 4:21 PM
# excise duty
A pack of 20 cigarettes will now cost €13.50
The minister did not announce any change to excise duty on alcohol products.
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Oct 8th 2019, 2:02 PM
# vaping
Harris hits out at politicians trying to get him to meet vaping company reps
The minister said tobacco companies are ‘despicable’ for targeting children with e-cigarettes.
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Oct 2nd 2019, 3:35 PM
# Brexit
Irish people travelling to UK after no-deal Brexit will be able to buy duty free tobacco and alcohol
The EU abolished duty-free shopping between member nations in 1999.
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Sep 10th 2019, 11:01 AM
# Black Market
Revenue seize €70,000 worth of cigarettes during search of Italian-registered ship
During a search of the vessel, 118,00 cigarettes, branded L&M, Marlboro and Winston, were seized.
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Sep 7th 2019, 10:35 AM
# Seized
€39,000 worth of unstamped cigarettes and €1,530 in cash seized in Cork City
The cigarettes were discovered with the assistance of detector dog Eva.
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Aug 16th 2019, 4:59 PM
# Tax Hikes
Raise price of cigarettes to €20 a pack by 2025, government told
The Irish Heart Foundation is arguing for the move in its pre-Budget submission.
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Aug 15th 2019, 6:30 AM
# kick the habit
Littering could literally be halved if cigarette butts weren't thrown on the ground
The 2018 National Litter Pollution Monitoring System Report has highlighted the extent of the problem
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Jul 12th 2019, 6:10 AM
# Revenue
Revenue worker who was fired after being caught 'red handed' selling contraband cigarettes loses appeal against dismissal
The details of the case are disclosed in a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruling.
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Jun 18th 2019, 6:20 AM
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