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Ioannis Karagiorgas

With new tobacco rules, Greece wants to stop parents from sending children to buy cigarettes

Greece is tightening rules around the sale of tobacco and alcohol products to children, according to health minister Adonis Georgiades.

From now on, the sale of tobacco products to minors will carry criminal consequences and it will not be possible for adults to send their children to buy cigarettes, which has been common practice in Greece for decades, Georgiades said in an interview.

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