The directive from EOKA for Greek Cypriots to stop smoking foreign cigarettes, as part of a wider effort to damage British interests and coerce Greek Cypriots behind EOKA, impacted the sale (and by extension the importing) of popular foreign cigarettes.Footnote 121 EOKA ordered Greek Cypriots to only smoke Cypriot or Greek cigarettes, threatening the business of the importers.Footnote 122 A typical EOKA leaflet distributed in June 1958 directed Cypriots to support the local tobacco industry and the Cypriot laborer by smoking cigarettes made of Cypriot tobacco and to brand the leftists who ostentatiously smoke English cigarettes, thus showing the emergent intracommunal conflict as EOKA wanted to keep the Cypriot communists out of politics.Footnote 123 While many Cypriots filled empty Cypriot or Greek cigarette packets with foreign, namely Virginia cigarettes, indicating their preference for these, this risked EOKAs violent wrath.Footnote 124 This practically brought to a halt the importation of foreign-made cigarettes, with only the larger importers surviving
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