A new report suggests women who smoke between one and four cigarettes a day are five times more likely to develop lung cancer when compared with non-smokers.

Revenue officers have seized 7.9 million smuggled cigarettes at Dublin Port.

The Department of Health has released a photo of what the plain packaging will look like on cigarette boxes.

One person was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

A special campaign is to be mounted in airports from next month aimed at cutting down on illegal cigarette smuggling, which is costing the State millions of euro in lost revenue.

Cigarette vending machine operators are prepared to mount a Supreme Court challenge against the government’s plans to ban the machines by 2025.

In 2015, 16.5% of all cigarettes consumed here arrived through the black market.

E-cigarettes are now the most popular form of support to stop smoking in England, overtaking nicotine gum and skin patches, researchers have said.

Smokers group Forest Ireland has called for a cut in taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products.

Revenue officers have seized 4.1 million cigarettes with a retail value of more than €2.1m from a container intercepted on the M1 motorway.

Revenue officers have seized more than 40,000 cigarettes with a retail value of €20,000 at Dublin Airport.

Cigarette butts are to be recycled into plastic products under a scheme that aims to cut litter and landfill, it has been announced.

Revenue officers seized 445,000 cigarettes yesterday in Cork hidden inside several mannequins.

Revenue have seized more than 111,000 cigarettes and 67.5kgs of unstamped roll-your-own tobacco in Cork and Dundalk.

More than five million cigarettes, with a retail value of €2.5m, have been seized by Revenue at the Port of Cork.

The illegal cigarette market remains a big business for criminals, according to Retailers Against Smuggling (RAS).

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A woman has died in a house fire believed to have been started by a cigarette.