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The Cypriot EU Council Presidency’s latest attempt to advance the EU’s tobacco tax reform was put to the test on Wednesday 21 January, when officials convened in the Council’...

Smoking laws are no longer keeping up with the surge of new tobacco products, the president of the Cyprus national addictions authority (AAEK), Christos Minas, warned on Friday. As the ...

A clinic to help patients give up smoking is operating at the Nicosia general hospital, constituting a practical and effective means of support for those wishing to kick the habit, ...

Cypriot students rank first in Europe for e-cigarette and hookah use, with 4.3 per cent reporting daily consumption – well above the European average of 3.1 per cent. According to the latest results ...

British lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favour of plans to introduce some of the world’s strictest anti-smoking rules, giving the green light for the bill to progress to ...

One in three people in Cyprus smoke, multinational tobacco company Philip Morris said on Tuesday presenting the results of its latest survey. It added that most of these smokers are ...

Since 2015, police have issued 17,624 fines for smoking in prohibited areas, ranging from €85 to €2,000 each, adding over €1.5 million to state coffers. The police, however, have been complaining for years that this ...

Health campaigners have written to U.S. regulators accusing Philip Morris International PM.N of misrepresenting past regulatory decisions, seeking to disrupt the launch of its flagship heated tobacco device ...

All nicotine products should be taxed and regulated as tobacco to prioritise the health of children over the profits of the tobacco industry, the president of the Cyprus National Addictions ...

Around half of schoolkids in Cyprus have tried alcohol at least once, according to an HBSC survey on health behaviour in school-age children, with officials saying the data is alarming. ...

Almost a third of Cypriots are still smokers, according to statistics compiled by research company Marc released on Tuesday. Marc, acting on behalf of Philip Morris Cyprus, interviewed a total ...

Consternation was caused at the Nicosia general hospital when a patient on oxygen lit up a cigarette causing a fire, it emerged on Tuesday. The patient was being treated in ...

‘In the past two years, I have sold more tobacco sticks than I could ever have imagined’ They have long been promoted as a way to help smokers stop, but ...

A nationwide campaign to tackle indoor smoking is underway police said on Wednesday. Offenders will be fined up to €85 with Friday and Saturday nights set to be heavy with inspections. ...

Smoking – cigarettes and shishas – and drinking alcohol have been banned in parks in Kyrenia following an announcement by its ‘mayor’ Murat Sengul, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Saturday. According to ...

Almost half of Cypriot adults have smoked in the last month a survey of the public showed, the head of the national addiction authority, Dr Christos Minas said on Monday. ...

Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from purchasing tobacco as part of a package of new anti-smoking laws that passed parliament on Tuesday and are among the most ...

Four out of ten university students say it is easy for them to access illegal substances within 24 hours if they wanted to, according to a recent survey by the Cyprus ...

Three people out of 10 in Cyprus smoke, while half of the smoking population say there is not enough information on how to quit, according to a poll conducted in the ...

Amidst reports that teachers were seen smoking at high schools, state secondary education teachers’ union Oelmek on Thursday said all faculty has “fully complied” with the legislation. The education ministry ...

Jordanian-born Gabriel Dahabreh is one of the top thoracic surgeons in Europe. Since 2001, he has been serving as the director of the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Athens Medical Centre. ...

The legal age of sale for cigarettes in England should be raised by one year every year until eventually no one can buy tobacco products, a government-commissioned review recommended on ...

More than half the smokers who took part in last year’s programme for quitting smoking, kicked the habit, said the state health services (Okypy). Okypy said, that 436 people participated ...

One in five of the population in Cyprus aged 15 years or more – or 21.2 per cent — smoke daily, the sixth highest share in the EU27 according to the latest figures published ...