Cokes and smokes taxes: ‘I don’t care, I’ll still buy it’
‘You could probably improve the way people eat without hitting their pockets’
Irish Times Consumer Affairs Correspondent Conor Pope asks members of the public if new tax increases on sugary drinks and cigarettes will impact them.
The trickle of customers who came into Colm’s Shop on Dublin’s Townsend St ahead of the lunchtime rush on Thursday afternoon were conflicted about the sugar tax and the hike in the price of cigarettes but none reckoned either one will lead to people giving up cigarettes or consuming less sugar-sweetened drinks.