# plain-packaging - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
# Plain Packaging
# Plain Packaging
The order comes after the failed attempt to sue the country over its plain packaging laws.
# plain-packaging - Tuesday 27 December, 2016
# Tobacco
# Tobacco
Ash Ireland today urged people to consider giving up smoking in the new year.
# plain-packaging - Tuesday 17 May, 2016
# Plain Packaging
# Plain Packaging
Tobacco giant Philip Morris had taken the action over plain-packaging.
# plain-packaging - Saturday 7 May, 2016
A range of measures across the world signal big changes to how tobacco is sold.
# plain-packaging - Friday 18 December, 2015
# Australia
# Australia
Philip Morris accused Australia of using a procedural issue to avoid addressing the legality and effectiveness of plain packages, calling the move “regrettable”.
# plain-packaging - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
# Plain Packaging
# Plain Packaging
Philip Morris is threatening legal action.
# plain-packaging - Tuesday 10 March, 2015
# We're Famous
# We're Famous
The tobacco companies didn’t come out looking too clever.
# plain-packaging - Sunday 8 March, 2015
# Analysis
# Analysis
We sift through the facts and fiction on the government’s anti-smoking plan.
# plain-packaging - Tuesday 3 March, 2015
# Breaking The Habit
# Breaking The Habit
James Reilly oversaw a €300,000 contract involving a law firm that had represented the tobacco industry when he was Health Minister.
# War On Tobacco
# War On Tobacco
The government expects a legal challenge to legislation passed by the Oireachtas today.
# plain-packaging - Saturday 21 February, 2015
# The Briefcase
# The Briefcase
Everyone was talking about rental prices, plain packaging and newspaper figures.
# plain-packaging - Friday 20 February, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
Multinational tobacco companies don’t want to see Ireland introduce plain packaging because they know it works, writes Minister James Reilly.
# plain-packaging - Tuesday 17 February, 2015
# War On Tobacco
# War On Tobacco
Minister James Reilly said he “must drive forward” the legislation.
# plain-packaging - Wednesday 11 February, 2015
# Smoking
# Smoking
New research finds plain packaging reduces ‘cigarette-seeking’ by almost 10%.
# plain-packaging - Thursday 25 September, 2014
# Smoking
# Smoking
Ireland became the first country in Europe to commit to introducing standardised packaging in 2013.
# plain-packaging - Sunday 29 June, 2014
# Health
# Health
TDs are due to debate a bill paving the way for plain packaging later this week.
# plain-packaging - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# It's Happening
# It's Happening
“Cigarette packets will no longer be a mobile advertisement for the tobacco industry,” said Minister James Reilly.
# Take 5
# Take 5
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# plain-packaging - Thursday 3 April, 2014
# Plain Packaging
# Plain Packaging
An Oireachtas Committee has produced a detailed and wide-ranging report on the proposal to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.
# plain-packaging - Thursday 20 February, 2014
# New Rules
# New Rules
The site — designed in stark yellow, grey and white colouring — sets out the industry’s arguments against James Reilly’s crackdown on tobacco marketing.
# plain-packaging - Thursday 13 February, 2014
# Smoking
# Smoking
The bosses of the cigarette companies maintain that plain tobacco packaging will boost illegal sales.
# plain-packaging - Thursday 23 January, 2014
# Black Market
# Black Market
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.
# Tobacco
# Tobacco
A coalition of health groups are meeting this morning to urge that upcoming legislation be enacted.
# plain-packaging - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everybody’s talking about the bad weather, bankers charged with €7.2 billion fraud, and Ian Watkins sentenced to 35 years in prison.
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# plain-packaging - Wednesday 16 October, 2013
# Plain Speaking
# Plain Speaking
The new packs – which include graphic images of health problems that could be caused by smoking – are expected to be brought in next year.
# plain-packaging - Friday 26 July, 2013
# No Butts
# No Butts
The Health Minister’s vowing to continue his war on smoking – and says cigarettes are the only freely available product he knows of that can kill the user.
