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Jump to full article: Irish Times (ie), 2009-08-26
Author: EITHNE DONNELLAN, Health Correspondent
Intro: IRELAND SHOULD continue to increase the price of cigarettes to put them out of reach of young people, according to a senior policy adviser to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Dr Judith Mackay said yesterday that putting an extra €2 on a packet of cigarettes would be “spot on”, discounting claims by the tobacco industry that increasing the price of tobacco only led to smuggling and therefore it should be avoided.
“If you have to pick one single thing to bring the tobacco epidemic down and particularly reduce smoking among young people, it has to be taxation . . . it’s a simple matter of affordability,” she added.
She said the tobacco industry was behind a lot of tobacco smuggling to evade tax and flooded markets with cheap cigarettes so children could use them.
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