Update: Campaigners brand call for rise in cigarette prices 'an outrageous attack on the poor'

Smoking is the cause of almost 3,000 cancer deaths in Ireland each year.

Update: Campaigners brand call for rise in cigarette prices 'an outrageous attack on the poor'

Update 9.45am: Campaigners have slammed a call by the Irish Cancer Society to keep raising taxes on cigarettes.

It comes on World Cancer Day today where the Irish Cancer Society urged the Government to follow Australia and make a bold pledge on tobacco.

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