https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Customs officials in the city of Graz have arrested five cigarette smugglers responsible for smuggling about 1.3 million cigarettes from Serbia to Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150306/police-bust-international-cigarette-smuggling-ring Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:57:44 +0100 police-bust-international-cigarette-smuggling-ring The Austrian Ministry of Health has just announced that it plans to impose restrictions on the sale of e-cigarettes and related products, including limiting their sale exclusively through tobacconists. https://www.thelocal.at/20141016/ecigarettes-to-be-restricted-in-austria Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:29:00 +0200 ecigarettes-to-be-restricted-in-austria In what the judge described as the largest financial criminal case ever tried in Austria, the regional court of Wels (Upper Austria), convicted five out of six defendants on Wednesday for illegally manufacturing cigarettes. https://www.thelocal.at/20140724/prison-terms-for-illegal-cigarette-manufacturers Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:33:00 +0200 prison-terms-for-illegal-cigarette-manufacturers