#tobacco

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 ...

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. ...

A 51-year-old Limassol man was fined a total €3,700 for possession of a large quantity of tobacco on which duty had not been paid, police said on Thursday. The man was ...

Police on Wednesday seized a large quantity of duty-free tobacco products during a search of buildings and cars in Nicosia. Between 7am and 3pm, officers from the Nicosia crime unit ...

A 59-year-old man was fined €2,000 after dozens of duty-free tobacco products were found in his car late on Tuesday. The illegal products were discovered by Limassol officers who stopped the ...

A 54-year-old man was arrested after several thousand packages of duty-free tobacco were found in his properties, police said early on Wednesday. The man was arrested after officers discovered 2.462 packs ...

A 57-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Saturday after he was found with more than 24 kilos of duty-free tobacco, following a car chase in Limassol, during which officers ...

The customs department seized over 27 kilos of cannabis at Larnaca airport and confiscated 81,360 cigarettes for which no duty was paid during the month of July. On top of that, they ...

The customs department seized over nine kilos of cannabis and confiscated around 67,000 cigarettes across Cyprus in May. On top of that, it also seized 893 cigars, almost 29 kilos of loose tobacco, 8,690 ...

Larnaca police found duty-free cigarettes and more than 12 kilos tobacco in the house of a pensioner on Tuesday. Following a tip-off, in collaboration with the customs department police carried out ...