Tesco Ireland admits selling cigarettes to a minor

Tesco Ireland must donate €1,000 to a court poor-box to avoid a three-day ban on selling tobacco products after a 17-year-old test purchaser managed to buy a pack of cigarettes.

The company was summonsed to appear at Dublin District Court to face a charge under the Public Health Tobacco Act for selling a tobacco product to a person under the age of 18 at their store in the Omni Park Shopping Centre in Dublin on October 29 last.