Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
10:30 am
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The profile in question is of young people. I can understand the ten cigarette pack argument in terms of young people, particularly a cohort of young , but they are not the image that comes to mind when I think of roll-your-own cigarettes. It is a different cohort of users, people who generally have the choice and invariably have a particular common economic circumstance. I do not know whether we are really addressing the issue by penalising people who truly cannot afford the larger option at any one given time. I do not believe that we are serving the argument well by making it punitive for people to purchase 40g packs of tobacco-----
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