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Wed 07 Jul 2009Ban on display of tobacco products to hit duty free shops
DUTY FREE shops run by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) are unable to avail of a special exemption from the new ban on the display of tobacco in retail stores because the Government failed to introduce promised legislation in time for the ban’s introduction today.
While former minister of state for health Mary Wallace made a public commitment in March to enact a special law before today’s deadline to empower the DAA and other airport operators to display a “pictorial list” of tobacco products in duty free shops, the required legislation has yet to be published.
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