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Ioannis Karagiorgas

Greece launches digital age verification system to curb tobacco and alcohol sales to minors

Greece has unveiled a new digital application system to verify the age of customers buying tobacco and alcohol, as part of a broader government push to enforce a law banning sales of both products to minors that passed last summer.

The system, presented by Health Minister Adonis Georgiades alongside the Ministers of Citizen Protection and Digital Governance, is designed to close a longstanding loophole that allowed sellers to claim ignorance when caught selling to underage customers.

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