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About 29.3 million adults across the 27 countries have tried e-cigarettes.
Everyone’s talking about bugging at GSOC offices, mother and baby homes and cigarette packaging.
“Cigarette packets will no longer be a mobile advertisement for the tobacco industry,” said Minister James Reilly.
Going too far? Or should it have been done years ago?
Three premises were also convicted for selling tobacco related products to minors in the first three months of 2014.
The items seized today have a total value of around €50,000.
Revenue intercepted the container at Dublin Port yesterday.
“We are literally floating in a sea of radiation nowadays. It’s completely reckless.”
Yes, you’ve done fantastically well to ween yourself down from a Grade 1 carcinogen to the equivalent of weed killer. But that doesn’t make it OK vape in front of my three-year-old.
The cigarette seizure brings to €233,000 the value of seized tobacco this year.
‘Vaping’ is no longer allowed in restaurants, bars, parks, beaches and other public places.
A man in his 50s was arrested at the scene.
If you give up drink, cigarettes, fast food, coffee and sweets you could save around €550.
The cigarettes had a retail value of almost €19,000 and a potential loss to the Exchequer of €14,500.
Retailers are calling on the government to step up their fight against smugglers.
The sale of tobacco products could be banned between 7am and 9am and after 6pm.
An Oireachtas Committee has produced a detailed and wide-ranging report on the proposal to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.
Noonan says the illegal tobacco trade is a high priority.
A study published today shows such bans are also linked to a similar fall in the hospitals visits by children wit asthma.
An Irish male in his thirties was questioned and a file is being prepared for prosecution.
Officers stopped and searched four men as they disembarked a flight from Wroclaw last night.
Irish Rail have banned them on their trains, should others follow suit?
Residents of the homes, as well as public psychiatric facilities, at sites in the Midlands will be exempt.
Don’t try this at home, kids.
The 57-year-old father-of-three was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer last year.
The bosses of the cigarette companies maintain that plain tobacco packaging will boost illegal sales.
How can we protect our young people from the tactics of the tobacco industry? The answer is simple: plain packaging, writes Kathleen O’Meara.
What’s are the folks on Kildare Street up to today? Well, you asked…
Cigarettes and other tobacco products will no longer be sold in any of the CVS’s 7,600 stores from later this year.
Some e-cigarette distributors report that parents have been been attempting to purchase e-cigarettes for their teenage children.
Just how dangerous is passive smoking?
The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Bill 2013 was discussed by the Oireachtas today with a focus on the impact it could have on the black market.
Plain packaging on cigarette packets is being discussed today in Leinster House.
A coalition of health groups are meeting this morning to urge that upcoming legislation be enacted.
What’s going on in Leinster House? Well, as you asked…
The cigarettes were seized from a Ford Transit van on the Tipperary/Limerick border this afternoon.
The report warns that smoking cigarettes can cause blindness, diabetes, erectile dysfunction and liver cancer.
Two people were arrested and a number of mobile phones and tablets were seized in a follow-up search.
In its report for 2013 published today, Revenue revealed that it seized drugs worth more than €44 million last year.