Greece, where an estimated 40 percent of adults are smokers, has banned smoking starting today, in enclosed public areas, and not everyone is happy. This is the second attempt to ban smoking in less than a year, with many of the previous legal loopholes closing Wednesday 1 September. Cafe and bar owners say it is coming at a bad time, with the economic crisis still putting the nation under strain. Smokers will be fined about euros 500 and cafes, bars or restaurants where they are caught could be charged up to 10,000.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 1 September 2010 at 13:35 | permalink
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
News story, GenevaLunch, 1 September 2010.
Filed under: News, World news
We are happy to have your comments, which are approved before they appear: please remember to be courteous and brief. We accept only comments directly related to an article. We do not accept comment spam - messages sent to more than one site. We do not publish comments if the e-mail address is not legitimate. Thank you!