# cigarettes - Friday 14 June, 2013
Experts say smokers are at risk from the toxins and tar in cigarettes, not the nicotine that is in e-cigarettes.
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# cigarettes - Friday 7 June, 2013
The tobacco was discovered when customs officers intercepted a van at a location in Dublin on Wednesday.
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# cigarettes - Saturday 1 June, 2013
Russians still smoke plentifully on public transport and administrative buildings, but all that could change under an ambitious new anti-tobacco plan.
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Breaking via The Mire wire: HSE officials too busy watching video of Chinese baby to appear on Prime Time, and parents using clothes recycling containers to mind children…
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 28 May, 2013
Ireland is to become the second country in the world to introduce plain packets of cigarettes.
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# cigarettes - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Gardaí and Revenue seized more than three million cigarettes in two separate raids.
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Ireland was the first country in the world to ban smoking in workplaces including restaurants, bars, and pubs.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
# cigarettes - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
A major tobacco company’s Irish branch says 28.2 per cent of all cigarettes sold here last year evaded the excise duty net.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Forest Éireann, a representative group for Irish smokers, says a ban on smoking in cars would have little positive effect.
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# cigarettes - Friday 8 March, 2013
Revenue said separate discoveries of drugs and cigarettes this week would have been worth about €65,000.
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# cigarettes - Monday 25 February, 2013
The county that saw the greatest use of illegal cigarettes was Waterford, researchers said.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
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.
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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.
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# cigarettes - Saturday 2 February, 2013
Entrepreneur has turned a creative eye on all kinds of refuse that would previously have gone straight to landfill.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Forest Eirean said smokers already know the health risks and the warnings are “unnecessarily intrusive” and “gratuitously offensive”.
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# cigarettes - Friday 25 January, 2013
Separately, two Latvian men have appeared in court
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# cigarettes - Thursday 24 January, 2013
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.
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
A new EU law will see the introduction of cigarette packets displaying graphic images in Ireland. But will that reduce smoking rates?
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Legislation to give legal effect to the new European rules will be debated in the Dáil when it reconvenes tomorrow morning.
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
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.
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# cigarettes - Friday 28 December, 2012
During his time as Taoiseach, Charles Haughey moved to change the culture of smoking in Ireland.
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# cigarettes - Friday 21 December, 2012
Banning flavoured cigarettes and images of rotting lungs are all part of the plan.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
Here are the most notable measures announced by Ministers Howlin and Noonan today.
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The government has increased the excise on alcohol and cigarettes by more than was expected in Budget 2013.
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
The seizure had a potential loss to the exchequer of €341,000.
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# cigarettes - Sunday 2 December, 2012
The Irish Tobacco Manufacturers Advisory Committee said criminals will make over €230 million this year from illegal tobacco in Ireland.
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# cigarettes - Saturday 1 December, 2012
All cigarettes will now have to be sold in identical, olive-brown packets bearing the same typeface and largely covered with graphic health warnings.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
The cigarettes would have posed a loss to the Exchequer of about €120,000, and were disguised as ‘advertising material’.
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# cigarettes - Monday 26 November, 2012
Scientists have warned that smoking can damage the mind as well as the body.
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# cigarettes - Thursday 22 November, 2012
The seizures took place in Co Louth today as part of an operation with the gardaí. The cigarettes have a retail value of €282,000.
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Gardaí 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.
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# cigarettes - Saturday 13 October, 2012
How much is the Nobel Prize worth to YOU? And after the first two debates, how likely is it that Obama will remain president?
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# cigarettes - Monday 8 October, 2012
The eight million cigarettes were seized by the Revenue’s Customs Service in boxes labelled “Garlic & Cheese Tear & Share”.
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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.
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# cigarettes - Monday 24 September, 2012
The cigarettes, of brands which are not otherwise sold in Ireland, were stored in a shipment described as ‘furniture’.
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# cigarettes - Friday 21 September, 2012
The victim sustained serious facial injuries in the unprovoked attack.
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# cigarettes - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
Two separate operations have yielded a seizure of nearly four million cigarettes.
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Two-thirds of all men over the age of 15 smoke in Indonesia – making them the world’s heaviest smokers.
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# cigarettes - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
A new study has shown that cigarette packaging has a direct impact on the choices of female smokers.
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