Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija is speculating that his retirement is to serve the purpose of avoiding consequences for the plagiarism.
He was awarded the National Award for the Promotion and Popularization of Science, Annual Award of the City of Split, Award "Velimir Terzić" for the promotion of democracy in Croatia, as well as the Slobodna Dalmacija Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time.
Slobodna Dalmacija daily recently reported that a housing development called Adriatica is being built in McKinney, Texas, USA, as a partial faithful replica of Supetar.
When Tuđman's supporter Miroslav Kutle took over Slobodna Dalmacija in 1993, Smoje began to write for the satirical weekly Feral Tribune.