Doctors call for €2 cigarette price hike

CONSUMERS could face a €2 rise in the price of cigarettes and a huge 20% jump in the levy on spirits if the latest health-based budget proposals are introduced by the Finance Minister next week.

The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has made the drastic call for significant rises in the price of cigarettes, spirits, and other alcohol products in an attempt to safeguard the country’s health.

And with the financial pressures on the exchequer becoming increasingly obvious in recent days, due to the international economic crisis, the medical group’s faculty of public health medicine has stated that its proposals will help improve the country’s coffers as well, with an untapped cash resource available on our doorstep.