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Christos Harpantidis, Managing Director for the EU South East Cluster at PMI Philip Morris International is a leading international tobacco company, which owns six of the world's top international 15 brands, spanning more than 180 markets. The company ...
It’s 2004 and Ireland has swung a legislative wrecking ball, initiating a demolition process that would leave smokers in many European countries out in the cold (literally as well). The Irish government has enforced the first-ever law that prohibits smokers from lighting up in all enclosed public and work places, bars and restaurants included. Partial bans and assorted restrictions had been around before that in many countries but none had until then brought watering holes and eateries within the scope of anti-smoking legislation.