Illegal cigarettes cost the state €264m in a year
13% of all packs consumed by Irish smokers last year were classified as illegal. File picture.
More than one in eight of all packets of cigarettes used by smokers in Ireland last year were illegal, with a sharp increase in the number of counterfeit products being sold.
The latest survey commissioned by Revenue to assess the scale of illicit tobacco products found 13% of all packs consumed by Irish smokers last year were classified as illegal.
