The price of cigarettes should rise to €20 a packet to stop a 'new generation of teenagers becoming addicted', the Irish Heart Foundation has said.
The price of cigarettes should rise to €20 a packet, or €1 per cigarette, to stop a 'new generation of teenagers becoming addicted', the Irish Heart Foundation has said.
According to the European Commission, the price of tobacco in Ireland is now the highest in the EU – but the Irish Heart Foundation thinks that price should rise even further this year.
“There’s many examples of low smuggling rates in high tax countries and high smuggling in low tax countries,” he said.
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