Anti-smoking law

Despite many years of anti-smoking campaigns, Greece now has the dubious distinction of being the country in the European Union with the second-highest number of daily smokers. According to the newest data released by EUROSTAT, the EU's statistical authority, only...

An embarrassing photo has emerged of a Greek minister smoking indoors during an event in Thessaly as the government is supposedly trying to enforce widely-flouted anti-smoking  laws. The mayor of Trikala, a town in Thessaly that has banned smoking in public,...

Greece's Health Minister Andreas Xanthos on Wednesday called on competent authorities to enforce the anti-smoking law, and start strict checks on public places where smoking is being permitted. The 2010 anti-smoking law that bans smoking in closed spaces such as...

A Trikala citizen appealed to the European Parliament, asking for the immediate implementation of the law that bans smoking in closed public places in Greece. The document sent to the European Parliament is posted on the trikalavoice.gr news website. The...

The Attorney General of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece, Efterpi Koutzamani, has sent a circular to all the Procurator Generals of the country, in which she asks them to give all the appropriate directives to the...

The under-secretary for Health, Zeta Makris has signed a memo in which it is highlighted that smoking in public places is prohibited, in an attempt to finally apply the anti-smoking law in Greece. The memo will be sent to all...

While the Greek Ministry of Health has made it crystal clear that it will not tolerate further violation of the anti-smoking law, along with a campaign of systematic controls during the holidays, absolutely nothing has happened and no fines have been...