ATHENS: When George Balafoutis returned home from New York two years ago, he was shocked to see what little impact nearly a decade of anti-smoking law...
Bar owner Nikos Louvros, who heads Greece’s pro-smoking Kotes group, smokes in his bar in Athens on May 7, 2019. — AFP: When George Balafoutis returned home from New York two years ago, he was shocked to see what little impact nearly a decade of anti-smoking laws had made on stubbing out Greece’s favourite guilty pleasure.
“Restaurant and club owners are afraid of losing smoking customers, and politicians are afraid of losing votes,“ fumed the cybersecurity architect who came back to work in Greece because he missed his homeland, family and friends. “It makes sense not to smoke in a hospital but when you’re having fun, you should have the choice of going somewhere where you can smoke,“ he said.
Polakis, a veteran surgeon, scornfully replied on Facebook: “I’ll quit when I choose to ... ok “guy”???”. “In the end, we will join the ranks of civilised nations ... what are we, the idiots of Europe?” then health minister Dimitris Avramopoulos – now EU migration commissioner – said, at the time the law was tightened.When the economic crisis hit Greece a year later, few could argue with business owners complaining that their livelihood depended on placating a paying majority of smoking patrons.
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