In Kallithea, an operation was successfully carried out to detect a warehouse of counterfeit tobacco products. Arrests have been made. According to a report by Stella KPMG, Greek consumers smoked more contraband cigarettes in 2018 than all other Europeans. Of the 43.6 billion illegal cigarettes smoked in the European Union last year, 3.9 billion were […]
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Thessaloniki: arrest for tobacco smuggling
According to law enforcement agencies, the 53-year-old foreigner was arrested on December 19 in Thessaloniki for smuggling tobacco products. More than 1.4 million smuggled cigarettes were seized. After coordinated operational actions and the discovery of the alleged perpetrator, the police raided a warehouse located in Efkarpia. Found and seized: 71 360 packs of cigarettes (1 […]
Greece is in second place among the EU countries, "heavy smokers"
The percentage of Greeks who are accustomed to smoking every day is high, with Greece ranked second among European member states. According to Eurostat, in 2019, 18.4% of the EU population aged 15 and over reported daily smoking. Of these, 12.6% smoke less than 20 cigarettes per day, while 5.9% smoke 20 or more cigarettes […]
Cigarette smuggling arrest
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 […]
Case … tobacco
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 […]
Cigarette smuggling: Greece "lost" 551 million euros in 2020
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 […]