WHEN smokers who are keen to save money light up smuggled or counterfeit cigarettes, they may be unwittingly helping to fund international organised crime syndicates and terrorists.
This is just one of the serious problems associated with the trade in illicit tobacco – a trade which is already a global problem.
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