In her letter (Aug 9) Cliona McCormack of the Irish Heart Foundation either deliberately or accidentally misrepresented the stated position of the minister for finance on the introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes
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The minister did not say, as Ms McCormack claims, that the Revenue believe plain packaging would not impact on their work against the illicit trade. He said that the Revenue's view is that it is unlikely to significantly affect this work
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This does not mean that plain packaging will not impact the huge volume of illicit cigarettes flooding the Irish market
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While Revenue does its best against the illicit trade it is fighting a losing battle when one considers that between a quarter and a third of cigarettes smoked here are illicit
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Ms McCormack states that plain packaging would be less attractive to children, but there is little or no evidence to support this view. A recently published article in NHS Choices in the UK looked at the recently published Australian research and pointed out that it did not examine whether plain packaging had any impact on young people's decisions to smoke
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