A 26 year-old car driver fleeing from a police patrol on the south highway by Grafenstein on Wednesday was found to have a boot full of smuggled cigarettes. The driver lost control and skidded off a country road and landed in a ditch when poice checked the car they found he had a boot full […]
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Smoking kills 14,000 every year
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Around 14,000 people succumb to smoking-related diseases in Austria each year, health experts have said on yesterdays (Tues) World No Tobacco Day (WNTD).The World Health Organization (WHO) explained around 5.5 million people die from such causes all over the world a year. The international institution made aware of the life-threatening aspects of passive smoking as […]
PMI tops Austrian tobacco sale chart
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Philip Morris International (PMI) is the new number one on the Austrian tobacco products market, as figures presented today (Fri) show.Research group AC Nielsen said the American company held a 35.5 per cent share in Austria, while 34.5 per cent of cigarettes sold in the country in 2010 were products of Japan Tobacco International (JTI). […]
Police in the Austrian-Italian border region are investigating after finding cigarettes worth 7,000 Euros in an abandoned car.Officials in the southern province of Carinthia said today (Tues) that police officers discovered 248 cartons of cigarettes in a vehicle parked at a motorway rest stop car park near Völkermarkt.The tobacco products were confiscated after a check […]
Ukrainian cigarette smuggler caught
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An Ukrainian man has been caught smuggling more than 700 cartons of cigarettes.The 27-year-old was stopped in a routine road check near Villach in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia yesterday (Thurs). Traffic police officers discovered 735 cartons containing hundreds of thousands of cigarettes in the boot of his car and on the vehicles back […]
Smokers brace for price hikes
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Prices for some of the most popular cigarette brands in Austria will increase from next year, it has emerged.Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which manages Austrian tobacco maker Austria Tabak, announced today (Weds) that its product range will get more expensive from next month. JTI said the unit price for a packet of Memphis, Smart, Camel […]
Austrian police have discovered more than 50,000 cigarettes in a fake Ukrainian custom officers car.Officials in the province of Carinthia said today (Mon) officers stopped the car registered in Slovakia during a random traffic check on Friday. They decided to take a closer look after the man claimed he was working for the Ukrainian customs […]
Around 25 per cent of university and college students could be alcoholics, according to a new study.Research by the Jungarbeiter-Bewegung, an youth organisation, shows that 90 per cent of college and university students drink alcohol. Doctors said today (Thurs) that detailed findings of the survey suggest that around one in four students are alcoholics.When asked […]
Massive heroin haul in Salzburg
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Three people have been arrested after six kilos of heroin were found in their car.Salzburg police announced today (Thurs) officers discovered around six kilograms of the drug as well as antiques and coins of unclear origin during a traffic check on Tuesday.The discovered heroin had a street sale value of around 800,000 Euros, they said.Two […]
A 37-year-old Hungarian has been arrested after police found 500 packets of cigarettes worth 40,000 Euros stashed in his car last night (Tues).A spokesman for Austrian motorway police forces said today (Weds) the man who didnt have a valid driving licence was stopped on the A1 western motorway near the Eberstalzell exit in Upper Austria.This […]