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# tobacco - Thursday 15 August, 2019
Raise price of cigarettes to €20 a pack by 2025, government told
The Irish Heart Foundation is arguing for the move in its pre-Budget submission.
# tobacco - Monday 29 July, 2019
New legislation to ban sale of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18
The legislation will be considered by government in September.
# tobacco - Friday 14 June, 2019
Tobacco worth over €15,000 seized by Revenue officers in Munster
The seizures occurred following operations in Shannon and Limerick city.
# tobacco - Monday 22 April, 2019
'It's just not good behaviour': Hospital anti-smoking policy flouted by patients and visitors
On 4 July 2012, Beaumont Hospital became a “tobacco-free campus”.
# tobacco - Monday 18 March, 2019
Teen vapers are more likely to use sweet-flavoured e-cigarettes than adult vapers, study finds
The US Food and Drug Administration has declared youth e-cigarette use as an epidemic in the country.
Irish Heart Foundation 'strongly' advises against use of hookah pipes due to carbon monoxide levels
The IHF says many users mistakenly believe that it is not addictive.
# tobacco - Friday 15 March, 2019
Revenue seize car and cigarettes and tobacco worth over €16,500
This represents a potential loss to the Exchequer of almost €13,500.
# tobacco - Tuesday 26 February, 2019
Revenue seizes cigarettes and tobacco worth €20,000 at Dublin Airport
Revenue said that its officers made the seizure during routine operations yesterday morning.
# tobacco - Monday 8 October, 2018
Cash and 24,000 cigarettes seized in Donegal and Galway
The seizures are part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting the shadow economy.
# tobacco - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
Sangria smuggled in boxes labelled 'orange juice' seized alongside 15kg of tobacco
The goods worth roughly €18,000 were seized in Rosslare over the past two days.
# tobacco - Sunday 29 July, 2018
Courts Service of Ireland reduces shares in Big Tobacco, but still holds €4.5m worth in stocks
Critics state the Courts Services continued investment in the tobacco industry flies in the face of the government’s Tobacco Free Ireland vision.
# tobacco - Friday 15 June, 2018
Alcohol, tobacco and medicine seized at Dublin Port
The contraband products have a combined estimated retail value of almost €9,000.
# tobacco - Thursday 7 June, 2018
'It's illegal and they'll be seized': DSPCA condemns transport of puppies without passports to UK
Revenue officers seized five puppies at Dublin Port yesterday.
# tobacco - Friday 9 March, 2018
Big Tobacco made €7,900 for every dead smoker in 2015, according to a new report
The latest edition of the Tobacco Atlas says that the industry is maximising profits by targeting the ‘vulnerable’ in places like Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
# tobacco - Monday 8 January, 2018
Revenue officers seize illegal cash, drugs, alcohol and tobacco worth €200,000 in series of operations
Most recently, officers seized 6,400 cigarettes and 4.7 kg of tobacco.
# tobacco - Monday 27 November, 2017
US tobacco companies ordered to put out statement telling people their products kill
The statements started appearing in newspaper adverts yesterday.
# tobacco - Monday 28 August, 2017
Over €19,000 worth of smuggled alcohol and cigarettes seized in Dublin
Over 28,000 contraband cigarettes were seized at Dublin Airport this weekend.
# tobacco - Thursday 3 August, 2017
Revenue seizes 230,000 cigarettes and 160 kilos of tobacco in Dublin
A large quantity of cash was also detained.
# tobacco - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
Tobacco giant Philip Morris ordered to pay Australian government millions
The order comes after the failed attempt to sue the country over its plain packaging laws.
# tobacco - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
Column: '8 per cent of young people aged 10 to 17 smoke cigarettes'
We need smoking prevention efforts to ensure smoking rates continue to drop among all young people, writes Donal Buggy.
# tobacco - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
Fewer Irish children are getting drunk and doing drugs, study finds
Cannabis and alcohol consumption is down when compared to 1998 levels.
# tobacco - Monday 10 April, 2017
Here's the official advice on how to quit smoking (and it doesn't include vaping)
Ireland’s health authority has recommended that the government wait for more studies before endorsing e-cigarettes.
# tobacco - Saturday 4 February, 2017
Detector dog Harvey helps Revenue seize cigarettes, tobacco and vodka in Cork
Officers estimate that the tobacco products have an estimated retail value of over €40,000.
# tobacco - Wednesday 28 December, 2016
Cash, cigarettes and tobacco seized in Revenue raids
Revenue discovered the tobacco products following a number of searches in the Louth area.
# tobacco - Tuesday 27 December, 2016
Almost 6,000 people in Ireland died from the effects of smoking in 2016
Ash Ireland today urged people to consider giving up smoking in the new year.
# tobacco - Monday 26 December, 2016
New research suggests e-cigarettes could be harmful to gums
More research is needed, however.
# tobacco - Friday 23 December, 2016
Harris pushed for €1 increase on cigarettes and 75c on wine
There was a 50 cent increase on cigarettes in Budget 2017 but none of Harris’ recommendations on alcohol were included.
# tobacco - Wednesday 21 December, 2016
The Irish State has just sold its shares in big tobacco companies
It had been claimed that the investments made a ‘mockery’ of the State’s aim of a tobacco-free Ireland.
# tobacco - Tuesday 29 November, 2016
Ireland's investment body could be stopped investing in tobacco - but doesn't invest very much in tobacco
The NTMA’s investments in the companies are made through fund managers.
# tobacco - Wednesday 9 November, 2016
Doctors urge all third level institutes to ban tobacco from campuses
UCD and Trinity College have started making their universities smoke-free.
# tobacco - Thursday 20 October, 2016
Almost one in every four Irish adults smokes - and the numbers aren't falling
Some 23% of adults in Ireland smoke, the same proportion as in 2015.
# tobacco - Thursday 30 June, 2016
Loss of 87 jobs as Imperial Tobacco to close in Westmeath
A 30-day consultation process on redundancies is to get underway.
# tobacco - Wednesday 15 June, 2016
Ireland has the highest alcohol prices in the EU (almost double the average)
It’s also the second most expensive country for tobacco.
# tobacco - Tuesday 14 June, 2016
Smoking will soon be banned in most Irish playgrounds
The majority of local authorities have committed to smoke-free policies.
# tobacco - Tuesday 31 May, 2016
No, smokers don't just need sympathy - They need help to stop smoking
Two in three smokers want to give up writes Donald Buggy of the Irish Cancer Society.
# tobacco - Friday 20 May, 2016
Flavoured cigarettes banned in Ireland from today
Regulation of e-cigarettes will also be enforced from today.
# tobacco - Saturday 7 May, 2016
Hikes in prices, menthols to be banned and plain packaging - cigarettes took a big hit this week
A range of measures across the world signal big changes to how tobacco is sold.
# tobacco - Friday 6 May, 2016
Menthol cigarettes will be 'banned in Ireland by 2020'
Part of the ECJ plan paves the way for the banning of menthol cigarettes.
# tobacco - Friday 15 April, 2016
191 litres of wine and over 300,000 cigarettes seized
The seizure was made in Belturbet, Co Cavan.
# tobacco - Friday 1 January, 2016
This letter is most blatant Big Tobacco threat to a Taoiseach you're likely to see
Carroll Industries threatened to stop investing in businesses if new laws come in
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Poll: Have you had problems getting a doctor's appointment recently?
AN INVESTIGATION BY the Sunday Independent has found that almost half of Ireland’s GP practices are operating at maximum capacity.
According to the newspaper, 44% of surgeries are unable to see new patients because of a lack of GPs.
The constraints are affecting patients across the country, while experts are also warning that they are negatively affecting how doctors are able to treat patients already on their books.
So today we’re asking: Have you had problems getting a doctor’s appointment recently?
Poll Results:
No (4003)
Yes, but I got one eventually (3368)
Yes, and I wasn't able to get one (1460)
I've never needed a GP appointment (533)
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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