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Author: Κώστας Κητής

I was born in Birmingham in 1972 and graduated from Brunel University London with a BA in Computing in 2020. From December 2016 to November 2022 I have been an online article writer and single-topic journalist for the Greek Union of Small Retailers. From March 2023 I am a freelance Greek interpreter now contracted to 5 interpreting agencies. I maintain 4 WordPress sites and have been an online article writer on a Greek local and national news website from the 17th of April 2016 to November 2025. Γεννήθηκα στο Μπέρμιγχαμ της Αγγλίας και σπούδασα Πληροφορική και Μαθηματικά στο Πανεπιστήμιο Brunel του Λονδίνου. Παρακολούθησα μαθήματα πληροφορικής και Τ.Π.Ε. στα κολέγια του Λονδίνου Brookfield College, East Berkshire College, Acton and Hammersmith College και West London Community College. Εργάστηκα επί εξαετίας ως δημοσιογράφος για το Συνδικάτο Περιπτερούχων-Καπνοπωλών Ελλάδος και Περιπτερούχων-Καπνοπωλών και Μικρών Λιανεμπόρων Νομού Αττικής, δημοσιεύοντας στο κλαδικό περιοδικό «Retail and Tobacco News», και επί παρόντος εργάζομαι ως διερμηνέας Αγγλικής και Ελληνικής γλώσσας με βάση στο Λονδίνο. Κατά το χρονικό διάστημα Δεκεμβρίου 2016 - Νοεμβρίου 2022 υπήρξα ανταποκριτής της αντικαπνιστικής εκστρατείας από το Λονδίνο για το Συνδικάτο Περιπτερούχων Καπνοπωλών μεταδίδοντας όλες τις πολιτικές ειδήσεις που επηρεάζουν το εμπόριο καπνού και προέρχονται από το αντικαπνιστικό καθεστώς του Λονδίνου. Μου αρέσουν τα καυτερά γεύματα, η φωτογραφία, οι ηλεκτρονικοί υπολογιστές, οι αγορές και τα ψώνια και οι βραδινές έξοδοι. Ως πρώιμος γνώστης προγραμματισμού ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών από παιδική ηλικία αποφοίτησα από κολέγιο που διδάσκει μαθήματα Αγγλικού λυκείου και ασχολούμαι ιδιαίτερα με τα αιτήματα των ατόμων που καπνίζουν και τους ηλεκτρονικούς υπολογιστές και τις ηλεκτρονικές συσκευές.
Industry News…

FOREST react to the King’s Speech announcement days before same policy is scrapped in New Zealand

28 Nov 202311 Feb 2024
The Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (FOREST) held a meeting and panel discussion accepting questions and answers from the audience against the proposed generational ban on…
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New coalition government of New Zealand to scrap the generational smoking ban

24 Nov 202327 Nov 2023
The new coalition government of New Zealand is planning and determined to scrap the generational smoking ban that would ban tobacco sales to those born after 01/01/2008 that was voted…
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Generational smoking ban ruled unconstitutional in Malaysia

18 Nov 202318 Nov 2023
While the Indian prime minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak has announced a generational ban on smoking as his own inspiration that is supported by the main opposition party…
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Rishi Sunak threatens to phase out smoking through the King’s Speech in Parliament

8 Nov 202310 Nov 2023
King Charles III inaugurated Britain's next parliamentary term on Tuesday, November 7, reciting the King's customary speech written by the country's prime minister, and reiterated Rishi Sunak's aim to phase…
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Cigarette prices rise by 75 cents in Ireland with the 2024 budget

28 Oct 202328 Oct 2023
The taxation scheme of the Irish Government and the Irish Finance Ministry for the expensive price and inaccessibility of tobacco products is to increase their price by 50 cents of…
Industry News

Australia revokes neutral carbon certification that the tobacco industry earned, because of the W.H.O.

26 Oct 202327 Oct 2023
The Australian government has been forced to revoke a carbon neutral certification given to British American Tobacco (BAT) after the endorsement was found to be in breach of a WHO…
Reduced Risk Products

European Commission taken to European Court of Justice over heated tobacco flavour ban

26 Oct 202326 Oct 2023
The European Commission's attempt to restrict the sale of flavoured heated tobacco products will be referred to the European Court of Justice by Ireland's Supreme Court. PJ Carroll & Company and Nicoventures Trading, two companies that market…
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The WHO refuses to discuss tobacco harm reduction in forthcoming antismoking conference

13 Oct 202313 Oct 2023
The WHO is excluding discussion on tobacco harm reduction from happening in its forthcoming 10th antismoking conference to be held in Panama City between the 20th and 25th of November,…
Healthcare News…

Rishi Sunak professionally engaged with the Israeli Hamas war for planning generational endgame for smoking

10 Oct 202311 Oct 2023
British prime minister Rishi Sunak is professionally and fully engaged with the war that broke out in Israel between the Israelis and Palestinian Hamas militants, more than it would take…
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David Hockney declares his opposition to Rishi Sunak’s plan to phase out smoking

10 Oct 202310 Oct 2023
"There are too many bossy people in England. It was one of the reasons I started spending more time in Normandy. Bossy people are humourless. This is just madness to…
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Antismoking proponents convince Rishi Sunak to adopt generational endgame for tobacco

4 Oct 20235 Oct 2023
At the annual conference of the Conservative Party in the city of Manchester this year, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speculated that most people who smoke take it up at…
Industry News

The Forest Association tent in the 2023 Conservative Conference – Smoking Gun: The Infantilisation of Britain

3 Oct 2023
The annual conference of the British Conservative Party was held in the city of Manchester last weekend and Monday and, like last year again this year, the Forest lifestyle choices…
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Antismoking proponents approaching Rishi Sunak for generational endgame of tobacco to come to the UK

23 Sep 202324 Sep 2023
Anti-smokers are approaching British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak near the end of the current five-year term in a bid to persuade him to ban smoking from the next generation of…
Healthcare News…

Indoor smoking ban spoiling student life of indoor university campus in Northern Greece

18 Sep 202318 Nov 2024
The University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Northern Greece, a business administration, marketing and computer science school, was founded in 1930 as an industrial school and was converted and…
Healthcare News

Air pollution proven to be worse for public health than smoking

30 Aug 202323 Mar 2024
New research has shown that air pollution that is residual in today's skies is more damaging to public health than smoking and alcohol consumption, with the greatest risk concentrated in…
Healthcare News…

Brunel University in London says that the NHS would save £500 million if smokers converted to vaping

24 Aug 202311 Sep 2023
Brunel University in West London says that the NHS would save over £500 million if half of smokers converted to vaping also bringing up data for 10% of them. Read…
Industry News…

Mexican most stringent smoking ban toppled by court injunction

12 Aug 202312 Aug 2023
The national restaurant association of Mexico, Canirac, has obtained a definitive suspension against the federal anti-smoking law that went into effect on Jan. 15, and banned lighting up in public and open…
Healthcare News…

Biden will veto law preventing the FDA from banning menthol cigarettes

11 Aug 202311 Aug 2023
The Biden administration has opposed a bill that would prevent the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from banning menthol in cigarettes. In its draft of the Fiscal Year 2024…
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Individual cigarette stick health warnings come into effect in Canada

2 Aug 202319 Aug 2023
The Canadian law came into force this week on Monday, August 1, requiring individual health warnings to be printed on each cigarette separately and in addition to the illustrated warnings printed…
Industry News

The farmers’ answer to the WHO’s efforts to sabotage tobacco farming replacing its crops with vegetables

27 Jul 202327 Jul 2023
This year 2023 and with the WHO's international anti-smoking congress to be held this year in Panama City approaching in November, the World Health Organization coordinated the "We need food…
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One million Malaysians sign petition against generational endgame for tobacco

27 Jul 2023
More than 1 million Malaysians have signed up against the generational end game on smoking, a gradual and annual increase in the age limit for tobacco purchase by one year…
Healthcare News…

The Queen of Denmark Margrethe has quit smoking at her current age of 83

21 Jun 202322 Jun 2023
Queen Margrethe of Denmark quit smoking at the age of 83, following the advice of her doctors before undergoing back surgery last February to avoid post-operative complications. The Queen of…
Industry News…

Totalitarian state of Turkmenistan to become smoke-free by 2025

17 Jun 202317 Jun 2023
Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader launched an "unprecedented" anti-smoking crusade ordering the Central Asian country to become completely smoke-free within two years, coinciding with smoke-free targets more strictly set by some states to…
Industry News…

Major streaming companies Amazon, Netflix, Disney, frustrated from smoking scenes health warning requirements in India

12 Jun 202313 Jun 2023
India's health ministry issued a decree requiring online program streaming services to include health warnings in scenes involving actors smoking. The streaming service companies Disney, Netflix and Amazon complain that…
Industry News

WHO elects North Korea to its executive board and uses eating (more) food as an argument against tobacco cultivation

8 Jun 20239 Jun 2023
The WHO has elected North Korea to its executive board on the 31st of May which it likes to perceive as the World No Tobacco Day in an attempt to…
Industry News…

Provocative Philip Morris statement claiming that cigarettes belong to museums

7 Jun 202310 Jun 2023
Philip Morris International overall manager Jacek Olczac told policymakers and media representatives and politicians that cigarettes belong in museums in a speech in the UnHerd Club in London. He urged…
Industry News…

Individual cigarette stick health warnings legislated in Canada as Australia will follow suit

3 Jun 20234 Aug 2023
Canada is the first country in the world to enforce pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets in 2002 that has now disgracefully become the first country to impose individual cigarette…
Legalisation Campaigns…

Open letter to the Australian health minister from 42 scientists on the Australian vape ban

31 May 20231 Jun 2023
An open letter sent by 42 Australian and New Zealand scientists that include director and founder of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association Colin Mendelsohn, to the Australian health minister…
Industry News

Civil disobedience as Mark Dolan smokes on GB News live TV programme!

17 May 202327 Jul 2023
Mark Dolan has taken the courage to smoke on GB News while presenting his programme, Mark Dolan Tonight, on Sunday the 14th of May 2023, a moment that may also…
Legalisation Campaigns…

Australian cigarette prices to rise from the 2023 budget announcement

10 May 202313 May 2023
The Australian Labor Party government is yet rising tobacco cigarette taxes for the next 3 years they will be in office. The Labour government announced a 5% tobacco tax increase…
Healthcare News…

FOREST satisfied that minimum age requirement to buy tobacco will not incrementally increase by one year every year

7 May 20237 May 2023
Smokers’ rights association FOREST expressed its chairman’s satisfaction from the recent announcements made from the deputy Secretary of State for Health Neil O'Brien, in the context of eliminating smoking below…
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Australian government panic over vaping where it is still illegal

3 May 202314 Aug 2023
Back in 1963 Martin Luther King stated that "We have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws". This is ever so true of the present situation in Australia where the…
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US smoking rates went up in 2019 and 2021, but down in this and other recent years

1 May 202310 May 2023
The decline in smoking rates and a simultaneous rise in the use of electronic alternatives continues in the United States, where it was recorded for 2022 that only 11.3% of…
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The world’s first smokers’ rights political party comes from Greece

28 Apr 202330 May 2023
The Κ.Ο.Τ.Ε.Σ. party in Greece is the first smokers' rights political party that has run at least twice in the general elections, in 2009 in the first Athens Constituency when…
Legalisation Campaigns

EU hinders recreational cannabis legalisation in Federal Republic of Germany

19 Apr 202319 Apr 2023
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir presented revised plans for cannabis legalisation in Berlin on 12 April, which are less far-reaching than the original plans. For…
Industry News

Elon Musk speaking to the BBC: “I am against banning things”

13 Apr 202313 Apr 2023
The owner of electric cars Tesla and the social network Twitter Elon Musk gave an interview to Britain's public television BBC. The BBC journalist who conducted the interview with Elon…
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The British Health Minister WILL NOT increase the minimum age requirement to buy tobacco by one year every year

11 Apr 20237 May 2023
A new initiative by Britain's Department of Health in partnership with public health, called Swap to Stop, is distributing e-cigarettes to 1 million smokers to help them quit. The exact…
Healthcare News…

UK government taking additional law enforcement action on illegal underage sales of disposable vapes

10 Apr 202310 Apr 2023
The government is taking additional law enforcement action to ensure that the law that allows vaping and smoking to be sold exclusively to adults over 18 is followed by tillkeepers…
Reduced Risk Products

Teenagers under 18 illegally obtaining disposable vapes and vaping in the UK on the steep rise over just one year

7 Apr 20237 Apr 2023
The use of disposable vaporizers by teenagers in England who purchase them in violation of the law that requires them to reach adulthood to buy tobacco and nicotine products has…

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