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Health - Aimed at Decreasing Underage Smokers 

The Ministry of Health is promoting the legislative context, which will ban the sale of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age and a campaign to decrease the number of smokers; mainly the underage ones. In addition, warnings will be typed on the tobacco products. The legislative context is being investigated by the Ministry and will be ready by autumn. All the above were announced by Minister of Health Dimitris Avramopoulos in a Press conference, on Monday, on the occasion of the No Tobacco Day, designated on 31 May. The figures on teenage smokers in Greece are shocking, since at 14, half of the youth have tried smoking, while at 18, one out of two is a regular smoker. The figures concerning adults are also worrying, as in the last decade the number of smokers increased by 10%, while deaths by lung cancer reached 6,000 annually.

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