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Wed 02 Feb 2010Tobacco smuggling 'now epidemic'
The Government needs to develop a national anti-smuggling strategy to combat an “epidemic” in the importation and sale of illegal cigarettes, according to a coalition of health groups.
The availability of cheap black-market cigarettes has helped push up smoking rates and is allowing criminal gangs to dictate Irish health policy, representatives of the Irish Heart Foundation (IHF), the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) and Ash Ireland told an Oireachtas committee today.
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