# Tobacco

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# Seizure

Revenue seize roll-your-own tobacco from Kerry house

Two men were questioned in connection with the discovery of the tobacco.

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Jan 22nd 2014, 5:31 PM

# Seizure

Revenue seize 22,000 cigarettes hidden in steel containers

Two people were arrested and a number of mobile phones and tablets were seized in a follow-up search.

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Jan 14th 2014, 8:27 AM

# Health

Department of Health hopes to regulate e-cigarettes this year

After concerns in the US over children being poisoned by the liquid inside, the Department says it will be bringing forward regulations in 2014.

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Jan 8th 2014, 7:30 AM

# no smoking

Four more hospital campuses to become smoke-free zones from Monday

Hospitals in Rathgar, Bantry, Mallow and Kerry will all ban smoking on campus from Monday.

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Jan 3rd 2014, 6:21 PM

# Smoking

Father with terminal lung cancer joins with HSE in fight against tobacco

Gerry Collins and his family are part of a new ad campaign to encourage people to stop smoking.

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Dec 30th 2013, 1:20 PM

Voices

Column: The tobacco industry promotes a killer product – we should limit all interactions with it

More and more countries are attempting to introduce anti-smoking laws – and the multi-billion euro tobacco industry is responding by launching long, cripplingly expensive legal challenges. Ireland should not let itself by bullied, writes Senator John Crown.

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Dec 18th 2013, 1:00 PM

# Cork

60,000 cigarettes seized by Customs officers in Cork

Cigarettes and a quantity of tobacco were found when a car was stopped by gardaí on the M8 this morning.

7.2k

Dec 14th 2013, 12:49 PM

# off the market

Cigarettes worth €20,000 seized in raids on Dublin houses

In a separate development, a Lithuanian national was detained with over 12,000 cigarettes and hit with a two week jail sentence.

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Dec 13th 2013, 5:31 PM

# News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everybody’s talking about the pay of senior HSE staff, two robberies in Dublin, and the possibility of power cuts.

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Nov 19th 2013, 10:15 PM

# Tobacco

Public hearings to be held on proposals to standardise cigarette packaging

The general scheme of the bill to standard packaging on cigarettes is to be the subject of public hearings by an Oireachtas committee.

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Nov 19th 2013, 9:06 PM

# Tobacco

Sligo community hospital becomes latest to adopt smoke free campus policy

As part of HSE plans to roll out the policy to all hospitals by 2015, St. John’s Community Hospital will ban smoking on its campus next month.

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Nov 19th 2013, 7:45 PM

# Tobacco

Revenue seize 125,120 cigarettes in Rosslare and Dublin

The seizures took place at Rosslare Europort today and at Dublin Airport last Saturday

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Nov 4th 2013, 5:26 PM

Voices

Column: Bloomberg's approach to smoking is working in New York – it could here too

New York’s Mayor Bloomberg intends raising the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 – and he’s right. This is the generation which can be protected from Big Tobacco, writes Kathleen O’Meara.

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Nov 1st 2013, 12:37 PM

# Smoking

Gardaí and Revenue given search powers to crack down on cigarette smuggling

Under a provision of the Finance Bill published today, authorities will be allowed to search “any bag or receptacle” that they reasonably believe contains an illegally smuggled tobacco product.

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Oct 24th 2013, 4:38 PM

# Budget 2014

Reform Alliance critical of Budget measures but not united in opposing it

The alliance of Fine Gael rebels will not be taking a collective stance on the Budget but have already sharply criticised some measures being introduced by the government.

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Oct 16th 2013, 5:00 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Are repeated tax increases on tobacco fair?

The Government wants Ireland tobacco-free by 2025 and a Budget hike on cigarettes seems likely but is it fair on smokers?

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Oct 12th 2013, 11:57 AM

Voices

Aaron McKenna: Anti-tobacco policies are lining criminals' pockets

It is not simple to change a societal behaviour – just ask the American prohibitionists – and plans to ban menthol and slim cigarettes will surrender money to criminal elements, writes Aaron McKenna.

Oct 12th 2013, 8:00 AM

# PET DETECTIVE

Harvey the Revenue's sniffer dog uncovers tobacco worth €10k in Cork

The sniffer dog also uncovered €55,000 in cash, while a further €28,000 worth of cigarettes was also seized.

5.9k

Oct 11th 2013, 9:13 AM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

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Oct 8th 2013, 4:50 PM

# Tobacco

Menthol ban part of compromise EU deal on tobacco control

65 per cent of packaging will be covered by warnings as opposed to the 75 per cent advocated by anti-tobacco lobby and the 50 per cent pushed for by those in the industry.

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Oct 8th 2013, 12:03 PM

# Smoking

Taoiseach calls for no change to tobacco health warnings

Cigarette companies have been accused of spending millions to influence new European directives on tobacco, but Enda Kenny and James Reilly are asking their European counterparts to vote against any change to warning labels.

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Oct 7th 2013, 6:22 PM

# Health

'Cum spiro, spero': Reilly hopes there won't be an overrun in the health budget

The Health Minister probably meant ‘dum spiro, spero’…

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Oct 4th 2013, 8:08 AM

# Health

Reilly wants Ireland tobacco-free by 2025

The Irish Cancer Society welcomed the plans, but a smokers group called it “morally wrong”.

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Oct 3rd 2013, 4:12 PM

# Seizure

Revenue seize 315kg of tobacco at Dublin Airport

A file is being prepared for the DPP after a cargo shipment marked as “advertising t-shirts” was found to be tobacco.

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Oct 1st 2013, 5:32 PM

# i predict a riot

Smoking ban to be rolled out across prisons in England and Wales

Authorities are worried that prison officers could bring compensation claims over the effects of passive smoking.

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Sep 20th 2013, 7:23 AM

# Smoking

Tobacco industry 'needs to recruit 50 new smokers a day' to replace deceased and quitters

Research due to be launched by Minister James Reilly today found that teens are drawn to cigarettes in attractive packages because of the image they create.

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Sep 19th 2013, 7:55 PM

# Smuggling

Illegal tobacco seizures and fines drop 84 per cent

15 million cigarettes have been seized in the first half of this year, compared with 95 million last year.

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Sep 15th 2013, 1:27 PM

# Tobacco

Tobacco industry is lobbying MEPs 'all the time'

Labour’s Phil Prendergast has said lobby groups are courting MEPs, hoping to encourage them to dilute directives that would be harmful to the industry.

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Sep 11th 2013, 7:30 AM

# Up In Smoke

Charities call for 60 cent Budget hike in cigarette prices

The pre-Budget call from the Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Heart Foundation is aimed at tackling the “enormous economic cost of smoking-related illness”.

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Sep 5th 2013, 8:56 PM

# Money Money Money

Alcohol sales are up, but clothing sales are down

Spending on alcoholic beverages accounted for 7.7 per cent of all spending in Ireland last year.

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Aug 22nd 2013, 2:51 PM

# Alcohol

'Unscrupulous pub owners' selling dangerous counterfeit alcohol

A spokesperson for Revenue said there has been an increase in seizures of counterfeit alcohol this year and there are considerable risks involved for those drinking it.

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Aug 6th 2013, 3:21 PM