Cigarettes - Time

Smoking

27.May 2026. Isidora Ceric

Tobacco under the counter five times cheaper than cigarettes

In Belgrade markets, cut tobacco is sold under the counter, and those who can no longer afford legal cigarettes buy it.

Two people, a woman with an electronic cigarette

New research by Serbian scientists

12.May 2026. Katarina Stevanović

Only you vape: Electronic cigarettes damage lung cells after just 24 hours

Electronic cigarettes are often presented as a safer alternative to traditional tobacco, but new research from the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering shows that their aerosols can cause serious and long-term damage to lung cells.

Cigarette ban

22.April 2026 IN THE

Britain abolishes smoking

Anyone born after January 1, 2009 in the UK will never be able to legally buy cigarettes, after Parliament passed legislation aimed at creating a "smoke-free generation".

A young man smokes a joint in front of Cologne Cathedral

Germany

18.November 2025. AI

Germans blow more and more, but that's why they drink and smoke less

Ever since marijuana was legalized, more and more German adults are smoking. The good news is that they consume less and less alcohol and cigarettes at the same time

Organized crime

01.August 2025. Filip Mirilović

The bloody trail of the tobacco mafia

For years, murders linked to the tobacco mafia remained unsolved. One after another, the heads of criminals involved in the lucrative cigarette business and those who tried to expose it fell. Now the ball has started to unravel

Health

22.January 2025. MJ

ZYN nicotine pouches: A new alternative to cigarettes

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved ZYN nicotine pouches, making them the first such product to be approved for sale in the US. This decision provides adult smokers with a healthier alternative to traditional tobacco products

National Smoke Free Day

31.January 2024. BG/FoNet

Elementary school students smoke more and more - should cigarettes be drastically more expensive?

Every tenth student in the fifth and seventh grades of elementary school and the first grade of high school smokes. Compared to 2018, the percentage of smokers increased in younger grades, and decreased in the first grades of secondary schools.

The fight against tobacco smoke

20.January 2024. BG/RTS

Would significantly more expensive cigarettes reduce the number of smokers in Serbia?

The former president of the Republican Commission for Tobacco Control, Srmena Krstev, says that nothing special is being done in Serbia to reduce the number of smokers.

Economy

05.September 2023. MJ

What's going up since October 1: Coffee, cigarettes, fuel, alcohol...

The price increase proposal includes, in addition to fuel and coffee, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, as well as liquids for filling electronic cigarettes

The World

30.August 2023. BG

Scientists suggest: Ban cigarettes to people under the age of 22

Scientists believe that a legal increase in the minimum age for buying cigarettes around the world could reduce nicotine addiction

Society

10.August 2023. AB

Danica Grujičić: 75 percent of citizens are in favor of a smoking ban

The Minister of Health says that young people in Serbia give her "positive criticism" when it comes to the introduction of a legal ban on the consumption of cigarettes in closed rooms. The corresponding law should enter into force next year

Legislation

23.April 2023 AB

Electronic cigarettes: In nicotine vapor

The sale of cigarettes is prohibited to those under the age of 18, while the law still allows them to buy electronic cigarettes. However, electronic cigarettes are also harmful to health and cause nicotine addiction

National No Tobacco Day

31.January 2023. MN

Smoking kills: A habit bordering on vice

In Serbia, the National No Tobacco Day is celebrated today under the slogan "Every cigarette is harmful". The most frequently used tobacco products are cigarettes, which are smoked daily by 27,1 percent of the population over the age of 15. Twenty or more cigarettes a day are smoked by 15,8 citizens of Serbia. Many smokers, even if they want to, cannot get rid of their addiction to bluish smoke, which for them is a pleasure bordering on a vice.

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15.November 2022. Milos Vasic

Another smoke…

On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus recorded the first surviving note about tobacco in his diary. It is known that at least three of Columbus's sailors came home as smokers, and 1516 is usually cited as the year of the introduction of tobacco to the Old World, when the Frenchman Jean Nico (hence: nicotine) imported the first quantities. In Elizabethan England, smoking was hanged; Mikhail Flodorovich, the first emperor of the Romanov dynasty, cut off smokers' noses, and Sultan Murat IV cut off their heads