The police found eight thousand nine hundred packs of contraband cigarettes in a warehouse in the home of a foreigner, a resident of Xanthi, and arrested him. Greek consumers smoked more smuggled cigarettes in 2018 than all other Europeans, according to a Stella KPMG report released Thursday in Athens. Moreover, every fourth cigarette smoked was […]
A common myth is that Greece has cheap cigarettes compared to Northern Europe. The reality, however, is that the critical parameter is not the retail price, which is always related to the disposable income of consumers. The decisive factor is the size of taxes in relation to the retail price, and here the picture is […]
Greece has the second highest percentage of illicit cigarettes in the European Union after France, resulting in a loss of income for the Greek economy to 551 million euros in 2020 and to exceed 3.6 billion euros between 2015 and 2020. Although the illicit cigarette trade in Greece has declined slightly compared to 2019, it […]