Skotino
Environment
This Greek Village is an Oasis of Non-Smoking in a Nation of Smokers
For the past forty years, no resident in the village of Skotino in the Hersonissos municipality of Heraklion, Crete, has taken a puff on a cigarette. The picturesque little town is a paradise for non-smokers in a country where...
Greece
Skotino, Crete's Non-Smoking Village
This past summer, Greek journalist Foteini Eleftheriou, from the news site ekriktiko.gr visited the village Skotino (meaning "dark" in English) near Heraclion, Crete, to record the unwritten law followed by its residents for the past decades: NO SMOKING.
There is...