GREECE TOBACCO SECTOR UNDER PRESSURE FROM HEALTH REGULATION – BUT STILL THE WORLD’S NUMBER 1 FOR SMOKING DEMAND
December 1st, 2008
BY MAKKI MARSEILLES
GREECE is something of a paradox in the tobacco sector. Its citizens smoke more cigarettes per capita than anywhere else in the world, yet its government is increasing anti-smoking legislation and its long-established leaf growing sector is shrinking towards virtual extinction.
On December 1, 2008, Greece's health minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced that a ban on smoking in all public places in the country would be effective from July 1, 2009, brought forward by six months than originally intended. The legislation will also extend the ...
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