In pubs, clubs and bingo halls all over the country people have been collecting thousands of tobacco tax stamps from the back of cigarette packets.
The belief was that by collecting these stamps, they could be traded against items which could be donated to charity. Much to the disappointment of collectors, it turns out that the stamps have no redeemable value. Nobody seems to know where this urban myth began.
Reporter Mícheál Ó hUanacháin comments
Urban legends like this have a long and well-documented history. They begin probably when somebody's cousin's husband's friend mishears something during a noisy conversation, or reports a 'what if' as a 'guess what'
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 10 January 1996. The reporter is Mícheál Ó hUanacháin.
