Call for cigarettes to be priced at €1 each

Ireland’s minister for health, James Reilly, has called for the price of cigarettes to be increased to €1 each or €20 a pack, more than twice the current price, according to The Irish Times.

Unveiling his latest move in the war on tobacco, Reilly said this would ensure that people “think long and hard before they drag long and hard.”

A pack of 20 cigarettes costs about €9.40, according to the Irish Tobacco Manufacturers Advisory Committee.