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[Irish Examiner] , Hoare, Padraig How Ireland's smoking rates compare to rest of Europe. (16 Nov 2021)

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About one in eight Irish people smoke cigarettes daily, but are less inclined to light up than many of their European counterparts.

Data from Eurostat, the analysis wing of the European Commission, shows 18.4% of the EU population aged 15 or older described themselves as daily cigarette smokers in the year before the Covid-19 pandemic....

[See also, thejournal.ie article: Three-quarters of people want legal age to buy tobacco raised to 21, poll shows]

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