Drug culture

A future without smoking is possible, Philip Morris International CEO Andre Calantzopoulos tells Kathimerini in an interview in which he notes that "today we have the scientific and technological ability to offer smokers better alternatives that have the potential to reduce the harmful consequences of smoking."

If you're going out but would rather not catch a cold at one of the freezing street parties, here's some of the best parties happening at Belgrade's best venues, clubs and bars.

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Dark Tech at Drugstore

Norway becomes the first Scandinavian state to decriminalize drugs, writes Independent.

The majority of MPs in the Norwegian Parliament support the historic change, including conservatives, liberals and two left-wing parties.

They entrust the government with the task of changing politics towards drugs.

The Greek musical genre rebetiko was inscribed on UNESCO's 2017 representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage during its annual meeting held in Jeju, Korea, Ekathimerini reported.

Police in Kastoria, northern Greece, on Friday detained a 27-year-old man after finding 20 kilograms of cannabis in his car. Officers confiscated 37 packages containing the drugs that had been hidden under the back seat.

Authorities are seeking to determine whether the 27-year-old belongs to a drug smuggling racket.
 

The ban on smoking indoors is not respected by many establishments. This shows a Nova TV report, made with a hidden camera in random places. Health inspectors who go into restaurants as secret clients have been asking if they could smoke.

People in Bulgaria buy less and less alcohol, Eurostat data show. Last year, households in Bulgaria allocated an average of 1.6% of their incomes for alcoholic drinks.

French cinema is full of images of stars such as Bridget Bardo and Gerard Depardio, who impress with a cool vision, reinforced by a cigarette in one hand. But that may change as the debate about whether smoking needs to be displayed on the big screen is again discussed in the country, The Local newspaper quoted by Expert.bg has reported.

While in Europe in recent years there has been a tendency of a gradual reduction in the number of smokers in restaurants and bars, there is more and more in our country, one of the reasons being that the ban is not applied seriously. This is what CBT Chief of Oncology in Sofia and former Health Minister Dr. Stefan Konstantinov and Ms.

Swedish synth-pop artist Molly Nilsson takes the stage at Death Disco in downtown Athens on Saturday, September 30, with a setlist of tracks from her recent album, "Imaginations," as well as older work that highlights the 32-year-old's evolution from "These Things Take Time," her debut album in 2008. She is joined by Marva von Theo, a duet that draws inspiration from 1980s dark wave.