Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The other issue that arose during the lockdown in 2020 was that the sale of cigarettes, and cigarette and tobacco products, went up by €150 million. I presume this indicates the amount of product that comes in from abroad when people go on holidays and bring cigarettes back with them. Should we do more to control that whole area? For instance, Finland was referred to earlier. My understanding is that tobacco products can only be brought into Finland if the health warning on the packets is in Finnish and Swedish. For argument's sake, what if a regulation was introduced here whereby a tobacco product could only be brought in if the warning on it was in Irish and English?

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