#tobacco

Two people were arrested at Paphos airport on Wednesday after being found to have in their possession large quantities of tobacco products for which the requisite taxes had not been ...

A large quantity of untaxed tobacco products was seized from a vehicle by police on Wednesday afternoon in the Dali area, with the vehicle’s 75-year-old owner being arrested and ...

Kiosk owners have warned the finance ministry that proposed increases in EU tobacco taxes could dramatically raise cigarette prices in Cyprus and boost smuggling from the north. In a meeting ...

The police seized a large quantity of untaxed tobacco following a search at a residential property in Nicosia on Wednesday. The operation was carried out after the police received a ...

Customs officers have recently intercepted significant quantities of undeclared tobacco and luxury goods at Larnaca airport. According to a department announcement on Wednesday, customs officials identified five passengers preparing to ...

Limassol police on Tuesday arrested, charged, fined and released a 44-year-old man caught with a large quantity of contraband cigarettes, tobacco and heets, they said. During a traffic stop in ...

A 48-year-old man has been arrested after a hoard of smuggled tobacco products were found at his house, the police said on Wednesday. The man was arrested at his house ...

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 ...

Police seized dozens of kilos of untaxed tobacco products after stopping a man on the Paphos-Limassol motorway, an announcement said on Sunday. According to the announcement, police stopped a car ...

Limassol police arrested a 26-year-old after illegal tobacco products were found in his home. Police found a kilo of narghile tobacco, 27,760 cigarettes of various brands and 12kg and 250gr of ...

Contraband cigarette tobacco and the vehicles used to transport it illegally from the north to the Republic have been seized in the last few days by the customs department, it ...

The Customs Department made seven big busts in July, confiscating duty free tobacco products, mainly brought illegally from the north to the south, with the biggest haul being 4,082 cartons of 200 ...

A 59-year-old was arrested on Sunday night in Limassol for possession of 21kg and 810gr of duty free narghile tobacco. After a tipoff, the police searched two properties belonging to ...

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 ...

A 55-year-old man in Paphos was fined thousands of euros for untaxed tobacco products, it emerged on Thursday. The man was fined €3,500 and after his car was stopped at around 4.30...

Police on Saturday arrested a 41-year-old man in Limassol, during a smuggled tobacco bust. According to police, police raided the man’s home and car, after receiving a tip he ...

Global tobacco use has tumbled in a generation with one in five people smoking versus one in three in 2000, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The drop comes despite ...

Fifty duty-free cartons of cigarettes containing 200 cigarettes each, and 24 kilos of rolling tobacco were confiscated at Paphos airport, the department of customs said on Tuesday. According to a statement, on ...

By Jean Christou Cyprus has been ranked 20th out of 30 countries in terms of ‘nanny state’ policies, meaning the island has not yet reached the level of a paternalistic interference ...

Significant quantities of untaxed tobacco products and pharmaceuticals were discovered and confiscated in Larnaca, the customs department said on Wednesday. The joint operation between police and the customs department involved ...

Two migrants who were admitted to the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia were arrested and fined €2,400 on Monday after they were found with 47 packets of 200 cigarettes and 500 g of tobacco. ...

A large quantity of illegal cigarettes, tobacco and dairy products have been seized from a barber shop in Nicosia, police said on Sunday. The shop owner, aged 73 was arrested, fined ...

The European ombudsman has made an initial finding that the European Commission’s failure to be fully transparent about its meetings with the tobacco industry constitutes maladministration and is demanding ...

A man found with 70 cartons of cigarettes and 13.75kg of shisha tobacco in addition to nine boxes of heated cigarettes for which duty had not been paid was on Sunday ...