#tobacco

A 57-year-old Turkish Cypriot was caught with 14,000 duty-free cigarettes in his luggage as he prepared to fly from Larnaca airport to the UK, the customs department said on Thursday. Customs ...

Five British nationals appeared at the Larnaca district court on Sunday, accused of having attempted to smuggle almost 75 kilograms’ worth of rolling tobacco from northern Cyprus onto a flight to ...

Customs officers seized cigarettes and hookah tobacco at the Deryneia crossing point on Wednesday during routine checks. In the first case, officers stopped a vehicle driven by a 46-year-old Hungarian ...

Cyprus recorded a higher rate of daily tobacco use than the EU average last year, with more than one in five people aged 16 and over reporting daily consumption. According to ...

Fourteen 14 cartons of cigarettes were seized by customs officials at the Deryneia crossing point on Sunday during routine checks under the Green Line Regulation, it was announced on Tuesday. The ...

A kiosk owner in Kato Paphos has paid a €3,100 in an out of court settlement after customs officers seized hundreds of illegal nicotine pouch products during a coordinated operation, police ...

Hundreds of packages of smuggled tobacco products were found in a trailer in Ayia Napa on Wednesday, the customs department and the police said on Thursday. The owner was not ...

Police and customs officers seized more than 66kg of shisha tobacco, hundreds of cartons of cigarettes and other untaxed tobacco products during a vehicle search in Ayia Napa on Wednesday. ...

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides warned on Monday that new tobacco and nicotine products are targeting young people through social media, flavourings and attractive packaging. Speaking ahead of World No Tobacco ...

The chamber of commerce (Keve) has welcomed the passage of new legislation regulating nicotine pouches, following a vote in parliament on Thursday. In its statement issued on Friday, Keve said ...

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 ...