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Ireland Has Highest Alcohol and Tobacco Prices in EU

By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor
August / September 2015

July 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Ordering a whiskey or a pint in Ireland may find you with a subtle pain emanating from your wallet. A newly released survey found that tobacco and whiskey costs are 70 percent higher in Ireland than the rest of the countries in the EU. The National Off Licence Association director Evelyn Jones greeted the news with an attack on the Irish government, saying that the results of … [Read more...] about Ireland Has Highest Alcohol and Tobacco Prices in EU

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