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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 Association talk held about “Prohibition and the Infantilisation of Britain”

3 Apr 202322 Apr 2023
A meeting and round table event by the smokers' rights group FOREST which met on Thursday 23rd March focused on forms of prohibition and the infantilization of Britain caused as…
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Italy: External smoking bans “dictatorial” and “over the top” according to Georgia Meloni’s cabinet

22 Mar 202323 Mar 2023
Smoking in open-air bars and at bus stops could soon be banned in Italy, according to a draft law published by La Stampa. The health ministry's proposed crackdown on smoking…
Healthcare News…

FOREST Chairman accuses Chancellor of being “heartless and cruel” to update cigarette prices with economic crisis inflation

20 Mar 202320 Mar 2023
The president of the British smoking association FOREST called England's finance minister Jeremy Hunt heartless and cruel after his action to update the pricing and taxation of tobacco products in…
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Overwhelming UK majority find it “understandable” to be customers of the tobacco black market

14 Mar 20239 Apr 2023
A poll conducted by smokers' rights group FOREST found that the overwhelming majority of Britons ( a majority of 62% !) find it "understandable" for others to seek cheep tobacco…
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UK cigarette prices to rise with current economic crisis inflation rates

23 Feb 202315 Mar 2023
The British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to rise cigarette prices according to the latest inflation rates of the economic and the cost of life crises in the 2023 budget…
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Bill proposed in California to phase out smoking via prohibition to next generations

19 Feb 202327 Mar 2023
Assembly Bill 935, introduced by California Assembly member Damon Connoly, seeks to introduce a “phased tobacco ban” to California. If passed, tobacco retailers would be prohibited from selling tobacco products…
Healthcare News

Scottish hospital-range smoking ban not followed by those who are most in need

1 Feb 202311 Mar 2023
The ban on smoking within range of 15 metres of all indoor and outdoor Scottish hospital grounds that was decided and imposed by the Nicola Sturgeon government last September 2022…
Legalisation Campaigns

Medical Marijuana legalisation in Japan is currently underway

28 Jan 202328 Jan 2023
The Japanese government is set to introduce a bill that would revise the Cannabis Control Act and allow the use of medical marijuana. An outline of bills suggests the government…
Regulatory News

Mexico and Italy reinvent narrowed-down versions of the smoking ban

20 Jan 202320 Jan 2023
Mexico and the socialist government of its president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has enacted one of the strictest smoking bans in the world, establishing a complete ban on smoking in…
Healthcare News…

Republicans scrap Nancy Pelosi’s 2007 Capitol smoking ban

19 Jan 202323 May 2023
With Republicans in control of the US House of Representatives, smoking has once again become possible inside the Capitol building, another victory for Democracy in the land of the free,…
Healthcare News

Nobel Prize winner from 1989 says prohibition is not the right way to fight cancer

17 Jan 202323 Oct 2024
Famous American Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus who won the Prize in 1989 for making the observation that cancer can be genetically transferred from the DNA to cells through genetic…
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Michael Mansfield said eating meat could be banned like smoking inside in 2017 Labour Conference

13 Jan 202313 Jan 2023
Forest Director Simon Clark said that "The health risks of smoking are well known but it's a legitimate habit that millions of adults enjoy. Banning the sale of cigarettes to…
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Portuguese smoking ban amended and smoking allowed in bars and restaurants

12 Jan 202312 Jan 2023
'In catering or drinking establishments, including those with rooms or spaces intended for dancing, places where smoking is allowed in areas intended for customers may be set up, provided that…
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The Forest Association announced that it will challenge setting 21 as the legal age to buy tobacco in 2023

31 Dec 202215 Aug 2024
The British smokers' association Forest has announced that in the new year 2023 it is going to conduct a campaign against the delimitation of 21 years as a minimum age…
Legalisation Campaigns…

New Zealanders will not be able to smoke normal cigarettes in addition to cannabis post to the 2019 legalisation Referendum

21 Dec 202213 May 2024
During its second and final reading, the New Zealand House of Representatives, voted on 13 December 2022 in favour of the proposed law from November 2021 by the Government of…
Regulatory News

New Zealand generational endgame for smoking passes its second and final reading and awaits Royal Assent

15 Dec 202221 Dec 2022
At its second and final reading, the New Zealand House of Representatives passed the proposed law from November 2021 by Jacinda Arden's Labour Party government banning those who come of…
Industry News

Labour-supporting Mayor of Bristol vetoes the name for ‘Navy Cut Road’ as strong language between ASH intensifies!

9 Dec 202226 Apr 2023
Naming of a street to be named after a cigarette brand owned by Imperial Tobacco and the famous Wills family in Bristol, England, has been rejected by the city's Labour…
Healthcare News…

The U.S. WILL NOT HAVE pictorial-graphic health warnings on cigarettes – the court declared them to be unconstitutional

9 Dec 20229 Dec 2022
The United States along with the American People and the tobacco industry with the land of the free have ridded themselves of the obligation to print pictorial and graphic health…
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RJ Reynolds sues California referendum flavour ban result for tobacco and vapour

12 Nov 202212 Nov 2022
The second American tobacco company after Altria (Parent of Philip Morris) RJ Reynolds which since 2017 together with the parent Reynolds American belongs to the British multinational British American Tobacco…
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Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Italy will not implement E.U. flavour ban on HTPs

11 Nov 2022
Proposal delegate act from E.U. health commissioner Stella Kyriakidou from Greece to ban all flavoured heated tobacco products except from tobacco flavours has not been objected by the European Parliament…
Regulatory News

Californians ‘vote against themselves’ in menthol cigarette ban referendum

9 Nov 202218 Nov 2022
All of the sudden Californians have voted against themselves by vetoing their actions in person of those buying and selling menthol cigarettes while being able and permitted to do so,…
Healthcare News

The Duchess of Cambridge addresses the problem of addiction

31 Oct 202212 Nov 2022
Princess Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, addressed those who have an addiction even in its slightest form, to address their problem and encourage them to seek help and advice, by…
Industry News

A new type of self-igniting cigarette has been invented!

30 Oct 202213 Dec 2022
The young Israeli Rom Soriano invented something useful and original that solves many problems: the self-igniting cigarette. When it's raining or snowing or nobody has matches or a lighter with…
Regulatory News

Irish health ministry denies smoking will get banned in parks and beaches

26 Oct 202226 Oct 2022
The Irish Department of Health has denied suggestions that smoking will be banned in public parks and beaches. It was reported in the Irish Independent on Friday that the move…
Industry News

UK Chancellor who maintained the price of tobacco in 2021 is now the UK’s prime minister

24 Oct 202225 Oct 2022
Rishi Sunak MP who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer during Boris Johnson's government now became the UK's prime minister after Penny Mordaunt's nomination for leader of the Conservatives was…
Industry News

Smoking abolition proponent Rebecca Jane elected deputy leader of pro-smoking party UKIP!

22 Oct 20229 Dec 2023
Nigel Farage, political leader and coordinator of the campaign that led to Britain's exit from the European Union, is also an advocate of freeing smoking from all or most of…
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Tereza Coffey smoker-friendly vice-premiership scrapped after Truss resignation

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022
Liz Truss has announced her resignation after just 44 days in the top political office of Britain's prime minister, bowing to unbearable pressure from her own Conservative party and the main…
Industry News…

The Forest Association chairman supports the Truss-Coffey administration

19 Oct 202219 Oct 2022
The health secretary appointed by Liz Truss in the UK who is also the deputy prime minister smokes, has accepted money and hospitality from the multinational tobacco company Imperial Tobacco…
Industry News

Labour Party attacks Number 10 and Liz Truss’s staff supervisor because he worked for the tobacco industry

18 Oct 202218 Oct 2022
An attack with limited scope and publicity was launched by the Labour party in London, to the adviser to the Prime Minister Liz Truss, and to her as well as…
Regulatory News

The new Secretary for Health in the UK a friend of smoking and democracy

14 Oct 202214 Oct 2022
The report commissioned by Britain's previous government of Boris Johnson from charity executive Javid Khan to analyse public health disparities and by extension the further fight against smoking had as…
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The Forest Association at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham

8 Oct 202216 Oct 2022
British smokers' association Forest organized a round table on Monday 3 October at the Conservative Party Conference held during the recent days of October in Birmingham. Several issues were discussed…
Regulatory News

What lies behind the European petition registry for a smoke free Europe?

6 Oct 20229 Dec 2022
The Danish government drafted a bill last March to ban the sale of tobacco products to those born after 2010, but it was derailed by EU rules that make it…
Legalisation Campaigns

Greens attempt to legalise cannabis in Australia by making use of the constitution

30 Sep 202213 May 2024
“We've been told to wait for cannabis law reform for far too long, even when it's clear that the majority of harm is caused by policing and the war on…
Industry News

Top FDA officials move their job to Philip Morris International

27 Sep 202227 Sep 2022
Two top US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials recently left and were appointed to top positions at tobacco multinational Philip Morris International. Their departure from the public sector and…
Reduced Risk Products

Greece hosting scientific summit on THR comes first in OECD in smoking rates

22 Sep 202223 Sep 2022
The 5th Scientific Conference on mitigating the risk of smoking at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Greece, concluded today, Thursday 22/09, in which leading scientists from all over the…
Reduced Risk Products

First day progress on the 5th Scientific Summit on THR in Athens, Greece

22 Sep 202222 Sep 2022
The first day of the 5th Scientific Summit on tobacco harm reduction at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and its Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece, was completed on Wednesday 09/21. The…
Reduced Risk Products…

Greek health commissioner of the EC plans EU-wide flavour ban for heated tobacco products

21 Sep 202221 Sep 2022
The European Commission, amazed by the excessively positive performance of sales of electronic heating tobacco systems, set out to ban them in their flavoured form. Heating tobacco showed a vertically…
Reduced Risk Products

Marewa Glover at the Athens Tobacco Harm Reduction Scientific Summit

18 Sep 202218 Sep 2022
The 5th Scientific Summit on Tobacco Harm Reduction and its related control will be held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Greece during the two-day period from Wednesday 21…
Industry News

Mike Tyson is exhibiting in InterTabac-InterSupply 2022

8 Sep 20228 Sep 2022
World boxing and wrestling champion Mike Tyson is exhibiting his own brand of tobacco products at this year's InterTabac-InterSupply 2022 exhibition which takes place this year from September 15 to…

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