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Wed 12 Dec 2008Cigarette groups warned Lynch of Marxist and IRA alliance dangers:
Tobacco adverts ban:IRELAND'S MAIN cigarette brands privately warned the taoiseach three decades ago that a tobacco advertising ban could plunge the country into disaster by sparking a deadly fusion of Marxists and the IRA.
State files also reveal fears in Jack Lynch's department at the time that moves to curb smoking could become another contraception-type row that would embarrass the Republic and isolate Protestants in Northern Ireland.
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