What is the law on smokeing in greece and how old do you have to be to buy?

Question

What is the law on smokeing in greece and how old do you have to be to buy?

Answer 1

By law it is 18 years of age to buy, there is no law forbidding minors from smoking, just from buying them. But due to the awful habit that many Greek parents have sending their own kids to buy cigarettes for them, many of them are able to buy even for themselves, since the stores also do not want to lose money and allow the kids to buy. Irresponsible parents, that is the main problem imo, that do not give a good example to their kids, and later expect them to be ten times better than they ever were.

End rant....

Answer 2

A friend was sending her 4 year old across the street to buy cigarettes.Yia sou.

Answer 3

18

Answer 4

If you walk and talk you can go to the kiosk and buy cigarettes.I remember was sent to buy cigarettes for my dad when I was 8-9 years old.

Seriously, there is no law forbidding  smoking in Greece, or buying cigarettes,unfortunately.(if there is one, is very weak and never reinforced)

If you ask why, maybe you can start thinking who is the main buyer of cigarettes now that smoking is banned from all public places in USA.See, the US government is trying to protect the health of its citizens

Wonder what the Greek government is doing to protect the well being of its citizens....

Answer 5

Greece, the nation with the highest proportion of smokers in Europe, plans to ban tobacco in all indoor public places, starting in 2010, and prohibit its purchase by people younger than 18, according to the Health Ministry.

Greece has already banned smoking in hospitals, offices and taxis and requires restaurant and bar owners to designate smoking and non-smoking areas to protect public health, but the measures have been widely ignored.

You can read more here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/26/e...

http://gr.phantis.com/news/?newsID=20080...

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihVJ...

Answer 6

I was buying cigarettes even at the age of 12, so there is no problem with that..

Answer 7

when my brother was 15 16 he was able to buy cigarrettes in greece so i don't think there is a smoking age