Restrictions and possible ban being considered on tobacco sales

I think they should restrict the sale to specialist state run shops and only allow the sale in cartons so it would be €150 a go.

waste of time would love to see an end to smoking but it would just give a huge boost to the blackmarket agree with raising the age and over time that and restrict where you can smoke might do something .At the moment appears to be a huge amount of cigs available for well below the shop price i see that at work lots of heavy smokers never buy in the shops all got from their pals .

Would love to see it banned in any public area would take time still surprises me the amount of people who smoke we are always told how highly educated our young people are yet they continue to smoke .

For anyone saying quitting smoking is difficult, it's not.

I've done it about 20 times...

Same can be said of consuming, fast food, alcohol, generally poor diet & not enough sleep.. all of which are detrimental to health

The NZ approach is stupid, too.

Imagine in 20 years time, when your 35 year old friend can buy cigarettes, but 34 year old you cannot. Its just giving drug dealers a wider product range to trade in.

Its a cultural approach as much as a legal one.

cigarettes are targeted at young people because generally people above 20 dont take up smoking.

The smoking ban in ireland changed the culture as well as the indoor environment for the good where now smoking isnt seen in the same light as it was.

Not sure in Ireland how they are targetted at young people. They are in closed off lockers in retail outlets, no advertising allowed, cigarettes are in plain packaging, no sport televised in Ireland has any tobacco advertising to differentiate one brand from another.

Great. We finally agree on something 👏 😆

We can iron out the finer details of this proposal at a later date

It sounds like a great opportunity for organised crime.

Prohibition of alcohol. Look how well that worked in USA.

Collected tax monies are squandered by deliberately overpaying private contractors and to repay mad debts the state should never have taken on.

They aren't going to lower your taxes even if health costs magically go down. Billions are pumped into the HSE but they couldn't even meet their ICU expansion targets for 2021. But Mr. Taxpayer needn't inquire about that right?

Taxation can't be based on behaviour. It isn't neatly collected and distributed to begin with. It seems to me a compensatory fantasy to think that every penny deducted from your salary has been allocated wisely.

How about when we paid billions to lease private hospitals we never used in 2020. Maybe all the money you've paid in taxes over your entire lifetime was pocketed in that instance, contributing precisely nothing to the general good but thanks anyway.

But the ex-smokers would just live longer and develop more age-related disorders eg dementia, and so cost more to care for long term.

If I am correct about the NZ law anyone born after a certain date cannot ever buy cigarettes in their lifetime.

That is completely bizarre and down right obnoxious.

If I'm an adult I should be allowed to make a choice about whether I want to smoke cigarettes or otherwise.

You cannot outright ban a adult from doing something that is legal for other adults to do based on their date of birth.

Oh I'm not saying it won't happen, it's just nuts in my opinion though.

Why would anyone in this day and age take up smoking? How common is it for young people to start these days? Surely the whole thing is dying out as it is. Back in the mid 2000s you'd see loads of young folk puffing away but u don't really see that anymore