Businesses in bid to stub out Government’s anti-smoking measures

Lobbying the Taoiseach to drop plans to introduce plain cigarette packs is big business, writes Political Reporter Juno McEnroe

The tentacles of the tobacco industry have spread far and wide in a bid to pressurise Enda Kenny and his ministers to drop radical plans to outlaw branding on cigarette packets and tobacco goods.

At home, small businesses that fit out shops, install cigarette vending machines, and design and brand packaging have pleaded with the Taoiseach to scrap the plans.