I greci stanno sfidando il divieto di fumare negli ambienti chiusi, anche dopo 14 anni

Fun fact: “Smoking” is actually a Greek word in origin. It comes from smokinos, which means “lung cancer” in ancient Greek.

Wasn’t there a Greek minister that lit up a cigarette inside at a health conference a few years back?

The way to reduce smoking is not just straight-up ban it before the country is ready, from a social perspective. All you end up doing is completely destroy the entertainment industry.

My town had 3 nightclubs, dozens of restaurants and even more cafes. In the 10 years or so since smoking was banned all 3 nightclubs disappeared. They were replaced by a single club-by-night-restaurant-by-day kind of place. A few other restaurants went bust but the worst affected ones were the cafes.

The result? The same amount of people smoke today that did 10 years ago.

The Greeks know what’s up. You don’t just ban it. You run a 20+ year educational campaign, you continuously encourage people to stop smoking, you raise the taxes on tobacco again and again, you do everything possible for people to stop smoking, instead of just banning it and ruining your number one income source – tourism from countries who also smoke like a chimney.

In other words – a smoker will stop going out rather than go out to a place where you can’t smoke outside. There’s no point in having a coffee without a smoke. The smoke IS the reason why you go out in the first place.

It’s a disease, I know. Try banning alcohol instead, see how that goes.

Looks like we need another lock-down in Greece to show them they can live without smoking in a café, restaurant or club and keep it at home or outdoors.

Slow clap…

Greeks are as infuriating as a piece of popcorn stuck between the teeth ay as stubborn as mules.

Source? I’m Greek.

I smoke, and I used to like smoking inside bars, when it was ok. But after the ban, me and all my friends who smoke found this great thing. Because you still can smoke outside, but your clothes don’t smell like shit after this night. And your head hurts less

I am way more in favour of a system where they outlaw smoking from a certain age group. For example: for everyone born after 2006 it’s no longer possible to buy cigarettes. This way you outphase it, whilst keeping the inconvenience to a minimum.

In Italy smoking inside public places was banned almost 20 years ago. Best thing they could do, since then drinking a beer doesn’t taste like shit.

Fck smoking.
Breathing is a must. Smoking is a choice. 
I didn’t choose smoking so fck away from me.

Yep, shows in the lung cancer cases (age normalized) comparison:

Greece: 35

Bulgaria: 29

Sweden: 18

per 100000 people.

https://www.lungcancercoalition.org/e-atlas/?compare=gr,bg,se

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