Cigarettes
# cigarettes - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Cigarettes, tobacco and counterfeit vodka seized in €1.5 million sting operation
Gardaà and Revenue seized more than three million cigarettes in two separate raids.
# cigarettes - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
3,726 lives saved by introducing the smoking ban in 2004
Ireland was the first country in the world to ban smoking in workplaces including restaurants, bars, and pubs.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
‘Nearly 30 per cent’ of cigarettes sold in Ireland last year were illegal
A major tobacco company’s Irish branch says 28.2 per cent of all cigarettes sold here last year evaded the excise duty net.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Smokers’ group welcomes study showing low level of smoking in cars
Forest Éireann, a representative group for Irish smokers, says a ban on smoking in cars would have little positive effect.
# cigarettes - Friday 8 March, 2013
Man arrested at Dublin Airport after ingesting 77 pellets of cocaine
Revenue said separate discoveries of drugs and cigarettes this week would have been worth about €65,000.
# cigarettes - Monday 25 February, 2013
Illegal cigarette consumption rose by almost a third in Ireland last year
The county that saw the greatest use of illegal cigarettes was Waterford, researchers said.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Column: ‘If I could go back in time, I never would’ve put that first cigarette in my mouth’
On National No Smoking Day, Joan Conway tells how she gave up smoking at 45 – after first taking up the habit at the tender age of 17.
Millions more spent on tobacco illnesses than quit services
The Irish Heart Foundation is calling on the State to start spending more money on quit services as National No Smoking Day is marked today.
# cigarettes - Saturday 2 February, 2013
Recycling project turning cigarette butts into plastic
Entrepreneur has turned a creative eye on all kinds of refuse that would previously have gone straight to landfill.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Smokers’ group slams introduction of graphic health warnings
Forest Eirean said smokers already know the health risks and the warnings are “unnecessarily intrusive” and “gratuitously offensive”.
# cigarettes - Friday 25 January, 2013
€35,000 in cash seized from men at Dublin Airport
Separately, two Latvian men have appeared in court
# cigarettes - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Column: Women aren’t being ‘tricked’ into smoking by pretty packaging
Women smoke because they want a nicotine hit – not because they’re taken in by cute packaging or promises of weight loss, writes Nuala Walsh.
# cigarettes - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Poll: Do you think strict rules on cigarette packaging will make any difference?
A new EU law will see the introduction of cigarette packets displaying graphic images in Ireland. But will that reduce smoking rates?
New EU law will require graphic images on cigarette packaging
Legislation to give legal effect to the new European rules will be debated in the Dáil when it reconvenes tomorrow morning.
# cigarettes - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
Smokers urged seek support to kick the habit as new year begins
One million people have successfully quit smoking in Ireland – and now the HSE is urging remaining smokers to kick the habit for good in 2013.
# cigarettes - Friday 28 December, 2012
Haughey’s mission against smoking and cigarette advertising
During his time as Taoiseach, Charles Haughey moved to change the culture of smoking in Ireland.
# cigarettes - Friday 21 December, 2012
EU cracks down on tobacco branding
Banning flavoured cigarettes and images of rotting lungs are all part of the plan.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
Budget 2013: the main points from today’s announcements
Here are the most notable measures announced by Ministers Howlin and Noonan today.
Wine up by €1 a bottle, beer increasing by 10c a pint
The government has increased the excise on alcohol and cigarettes by more than was expected in Budget 2013.
# cigarettes - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
Revenue seize one million cigarettes worth €387k
The seizure had a potential loss to the exchequer of €341,000.
# cigarettes - Sunday 2 December, 2012
Government losing €1.5 million per day to illegal tobacco market
The Irish Tobacco Manufacturers Advisory Committee said criminals will make over €230 million this year from illegal tobacco in Ireland.
# cigarettes - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Australia introduces plain packaging for cigarettes
All cigarettes will now have to be sold in identical, olive-brown packets bearing the same typeface and largely covered with graphic health warnings.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
351,000 contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The cigarettes would have posed a loss to the Exchequer of about €120,000, and were disguised as ‘advertising material’.
# cigarettes - Monday 26 November, 2012
Smoking ‘rots’ brain – study
Scientists have warned that smoking can damage the mind as well as the body.
# cigarettes - Thursday 22 November, 2012
Revenue seizes 60,000 cigarettes, 11,000 litres of alcohol
The seizures took place in Co Louth today as part of an operation with the gardaÃ. The cigarettes have a retail value of €282,000.
Man arrested and drugs seized over fatal 2010 shooting in Louth
Gardaà have seized drugs, cigarettes and alcohol as part of the investigation into the shooting dead of 20-year-old Stephen Hanaphy from Coolock two years ago.
# cigarettes - Saturday 13 October, 2012
Tolls, prizes and liquid nitrogen: The week in numbers
How much is the Nobel Prize worth to YOU? And after the first two debates, how likely is it that Obama will remain president?
# cigarettes - Monday 8 October, 2012
€3.1 million worth of contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The eight million cigarettes were seized by the Revenue’s Customs Service in boxes labelled “Garlic & Cheese Tear & Share”.
Quitting smoking? New campaign uses social media to encourage people to quit
A map tracks the number of tweets sent across Ireland every week about quitting smoking – and asks people to support anyone trying to give up.
# cigarettes - Monday 24 September, 2012
7.6 million contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The cigarettes, of brands which are not otherwise sold in Ireland, were stored in a shipment described as ‘furniture’.
# cigarettes - Friday 21 September, 2012
Two charged over violent attack on 27-year-old Irishman in Australia
The victim sustained serious facial injuries in the unprovoked attack.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
Nearly four million cigarettes seized by Revenue
Two separate operations have yielded a seizure of nearly four million cigarettes.
# cigarettes - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Indonesia tops ‘league of shame’ as world’s most prolific smokers
Two-thirds of all men over the age of 15 smoke in Indonesia – making them the world’s heaviest smokers.
# cigarettes - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
Plain cigarette packets less appealing to female smokers – study
A new study has shown that cigarette packaging has a direct impact on the choices of female smokers.
# cigarettes - Friday 24 August, 2012
US court upholds block on graphic cigarette warnings
The government can’t force tobacco companies to put graphic warnings on cigarette packets.
# cigarettes - Thursday 23 August, 2012
Ryanair stewards detained at Liverpool airport over cigarette ‘smuggling’
Two airline stewards were off-duty when they were detained by authorities over alleged smuggling of cigarettes from the Canary Islands.
Australian state’s plan for smoke free generation faces opposition
The motion follows last week’s vote to introduce strict cigarette packaging laws in the whole country.
# cigarettes - Friday 17 August, 2012
‘Alarming’ results show women starting to smoke younger – research
New research describes the global use of tobacco an “epidemic” – with women increasingly starting to smoke at younger ages and early half of adult men in developing countries still using tobacco products.
# cigarettes - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
Australia’s top court upholds rules on generic cigarette boxes
Individual brands of cigarettes will no longer have different boxes – all will instead carry health warnings with graphic images.
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