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- I think back to those moments of telling people they have lung cancer and the devastation this causes to them and those closest to them.
- The illegal tobacco market – what does the tobacco industry say?
- Steve’s story
- Sally’s story
- Lockdown exposed reality of the illegal tobacco market
- Dave and Kayleigh’s story
- Ken’s story
- Julie’s story
- Leyland illicit tobacco stash found in cotton bag and tin behind shop counter
- Category: Latest News
- Illegal cigarettes found in Darlington man’s shoe cupboard
- Illegal cigarettes, tobacco and Viagra tablets worth £106,000 seized in Wallsend flat raid
- ‘Fake address’ fraudster nabbed with illegal tobacco haul in Ocean Road police stop
- Two Seaham shops ordered to close after £7,000 in illegal cigarettes and vapes discovered
- Illegal cigarettes and vapes found hidden in shops
- Court orders closure of shop
- Tens of thousands of illegal cigarettes, vapes and tobacco seized
- Illegal tobacco peddling operation shut down for 2nd time after perpetrators move to nearby shop
- Illegal tobacco – appeal to the public to Keep it Out
- Illegal cigarettes, vapes and tobacco worth £80,000 seized from Bensham shop
- Sniffer dogs help to uncover huge stash of dodgy tobacco in North Tyneside
- Illegal tobacco dealer stashed over 23,000 bogus tabs in Parliament Road shop and flat above
- Crook Mini Market to close after illicit cigarette operation
- Local retailers warned to prepare for new illicit tobacco rules
- Ferryhill shop ordered to close after it was found to be selling illegal tobacco
- Illegal tobacco – appeal to the public to help stop Greater Manchester kids smoking
- Illegal tobacco crackdown to stop children in Bury smoking
- Bolton campaign to stop trade in illegal tobacco to protect kids
- Wigan residents are urged to help stop youngsters from smoking by reporting the sale of illegal tobacco
- Illegal tobacco – Appeal to the public to help stop Salford kids smoking
- Illegal tobacco – appeal to the public to help stop local kids smoking
- Illegal tobacco – appeal to the public to help stop Greater Manchester kids smoking
- Mary’s story
- More than 1m illegal cigarettes were found in the North East last year
- Health campaigners call for retailer licence to sell any tobacco
- Renewed summer appeal to tackle illegal tobacco sellers
- ‘Keep illegal tobacco out’ this summer
- Gateshead shop ordered to close after selling illegal tobacco
- Euro Express in Ashington has its alcohol licence withdrawn by county council
- Wallsend shop’s alcohol licence revoked after 65,000 illegal cigarettes found on premises
- Manhunt launched after police seize illegal cigarettes and tobacco worth £20,000 in Gateshead
- Raids uncover Illegal tobacco and vaping products linked to Bensham shops
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes seized in raids on four North Tyneside shops
- Yorkshire’s tobacco black market with sweatshops, slave labour and 80p cigarettes for kids
- County Durham court closes store for ‘anti-social behaviour’
- Council team seizes £13k of illegal cigarettes in raids on shops around Salford
- Bradford shopkeeper jailed over illicit cigarette haul
- More than 17,000 illegal cigarettes seized from Gateshead shops during daytime raids
- Illegal cigarettes worth £45k found hidden in fridge freezer during raids
- Sheffield Trading Standards Team take down tobacco gang
- Police seize more thank 70,000 illegal cigarettes worth £400k in Hull
- Three shops closed in Northumberland due to selling illegal tobacco
- Failed businessman had more than 200,000 illegal cigarettes
- Three shops in Ashington issued with closure notices for selling illegal tobacco
- South Tyneside man prosecuted after large amounts of illegal tobacco products found at his home
- Yorkshire masterminds behind UK’s biggest illegal tobacco factory ordered to pay back ill-gotten gains
- Hessle Road shopkeeper hid 4,000 illegal cigarettes in holes in store’s back yard
- More than 200,000 illicit cigarettes found in customs raid on Yorkshire self-storage units
- Director and company prosecuted after £11,000 of illegal tobacco seized in Salford
- Shop closure extended by court following bootleg tobacco raid
- Shop director convicted after £11k of illicit tobacco seized
- Small business owners from Greater Manchester have shared their experiences of the illegal tobacco trade. This is what they tell us.
- More illegal tobacco seized in Bolton raids – amid warning to sellers
- Crackdown on Wigan contraband tobacco dealers
- Public urged to snitch on rogue retailers in bid to break illegal tobacco smuggling chain and save lives
- Warning to illegal tobacco sellers in Greater Manchester
- Illegal tobacco sellers in Manchester are warned
- Alverthorpe shop facing counterfeit tobacco claims from West Yorkshire Police
- Northumberland premises found to be selling illegal tobacco again
- Sunderland sniffer dog tracks down 4,000 illegal cigarettes as council crack down on counterfeit tobacco
- Millions of illegal tobacco products seized as part of crackdown on illicit tobacco trade
- Wakefield store selling counterfeit cigarettes was ‘criminal enterprise’, West Yorkshire Police says
- Bolton shopkeeper fined over £2,000 for selling illegal tobacco
- West Yorkshire News Huddersfield town centre Huddersfield town centre newsagent hid illicit cigarettes behind secret walls in his shop
- Illegal tobacco sales ‘widespread’ in Bolton as council promises tougher enforcement
- Officers seize more than 70,000 illegal cigarettes hidden in shops across Leeds
- Oldham off licence to face panel over selling illegal tobacco
- County Durham shop linked to illegal cigarettes and tobacco ordered to close
- £100,000 worth of illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized in County Durham
- More than 10,000 illicit cigarettes and tobacco worth £4,000 seized as two Ashington shops raided
- New police search puppies join crackdown on Hartlepool bootleg tobacco sales
- Owner of newsagents on Manchester’s Curry Mile jailed for selling illegal tobacco
- What happens when you report the sale of illegal tobacco?
- Major summer appeal launched to help shut down illegal tobacco dealers
- Campaign launched to tackle illegal cigarette sales in Sunderland
- Store that sold loose cigarettes to 15-year-old, and was found selling counterfeit tobacco, is stripped of its licence
- Keep It Out – summer appeal to tackle illegal tobacco sellers
- Tobacco detection dog helps sniff out 1.3 million illicit cigarettes in Leeds
- Bin bag full of illegal cigarettes seized from Newland Avenue shop, Hull
- Police sniffer dogs bust shops selling illegal tobacco in raids across Oldham
- Sniffer dogs uncover 250,000 illegal cigarettes worth £150,000 in Newcastle raids
- More than 3,000 illegal cigarettes and over 1kg of tobacco seized from Gateshead shop
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes among items seized in Wigan raids
- Sniffer dog uncovered thousands of illegal cigarettes at Oldham shop
- Illegal Tobacco Myth Busters
- Normanton shop surrenders licence following counterfeit cigarette claims by West Yorkshire Police and Wakefield Council
- Let’s stamp out illegal tobacco in Greater Manchester – Baroness Beverley Hughes
- Hull shop stashed 12,000 cigarettes in secret toilet compartment
- Police find £10k of illegal tobacco in raids on Southampton stores
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes found hidden in tubs of sweets and under the till in shop raid
- Crackdown on illegal tobacco to help keep Greater Manchester kids smoke-free
- An anonymous story
- Harry’s story
- Azwer’s story
- Britain’s biggest tobacco firm facing questions over links to state-owned factory in Belarus
- Tobacco smuggling Leeds gang member jailed after three years on the run
- Projects sees seven million illegal cigarettes removed from West Yorkshire’s streets
- Police poke fun at hapless criminal after 10,000 cigarettes were left in crashed car
- Thousands of packets of ‘bootleg’ cigarettes found in raid on Bradford shop
- West Yorkshire shop used hidden chute to serve illegal cigarettes
- Shopkeepers hid secret stashes of dodgy fags in hollowed-out CD player and storeroom panelling
- Dog helps sniff out dodgy cigarettes and tobacco as checks are carried out across Sunderland shops
- Illegal tobacco seized in North Tyneside
- Raid on Wallsend shop sees £10,000 worth of illegal tobacco seized
- Tens of thousands of illegal cigarettes seized from four traders in Newcastle
- Dogged determination reveals illegal tobacco stash
- ‘Smuggled’ cigarettes found hidden behind Pontefract shop’s staff toilet, West Yorkshire Police say
- West Yorkshire joint operation sees £55,000 of illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized in swoop
- Illicit tobacco sales could cost Bolton shops their licence
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes seized in major Bradford operation
- Halifax and Brighouse police involved in huge illegal tobacco and cigarette raids
- More than 31,000 illegal cigarettes seized during shop visits in Oldham
- Illicit tobacco worth £15,000 seized in raids across Bury
- Sniffer dog Ricco uncovers thousands of packets of illegal cigarettes at a shop in a series of raids
- Westerhope father and son jailed after helping smuggle five million cigarettes into the UK
- The criminals behind the illegal tobacco trade don’t care about your children, your community or you.
- Raids by consumer watchdogs uncover 18 dodgy tobacco hauls in Bury
- Illegal tobacco in Stockport exposed by lockdown reports
- Fight against Rochdale’s illicit tobacco trade goes on
- Millions of fake cigarettes and 100kg of illegal tobacco seized as part of crackdown during Covid-19 pandemic
- Keep It Out campaign leads to dozens of illegal tobacco reports in Bolton
- Lockdown reports and seizures expose illegal tobacco market in Greater Manchester
- Wigan’s illegal tobacco market exposed during lockdown crackdown
- Illegal tobacco seized in raids across Oldham and Greater Manchester
- Lockdown reports and seizures expose illegal tobacco market in Greater Manchester
- Keep it Out campaign leads to 45 per cent rise in illegal cigarettes being seized in Bolton
- The biggest illegal tobacco bust Salford has EVER seen…
- Manhole discovery unearths 4,000 illicit cigarettes from west Hull shop
- The biggest illegal tobacco bust Salford has EVER seen… hidden compartments, 25 shops and 91,000 cigarettes worth £45k
- Arrests made as 400,000 packets of tobacco seized after Hull raid
- Protecting County Durham residents from illegal products
- The huge haul of illicit cigarettes seized in County Durham as part of crackdown on illegal products
- Illegal tobacco market exposed in lockdown raids
- Lockdown exposes the reality of the illegal tobacco market
- Shopkeeper found with thousands of packs of illegal cigarettes
- Bolton Council backs Keep it Out of our neighbourhoods illegal tobacco campaign
- Real cost of illegal tobacco revealed
- Illicit tobacco trade in West Yorkshire is front for modern-day slavery, report claims
- Local councils underprepared for illicit trade rise spurred by pandemic
- Shop banned from selling alcohol after illegal tobacco found – and cigarettes sold to 16-year-old
- Fugitive who helped smuggle millions of illegal cigarettes into North East jailed
- Harehills shop assistant’s odd behaviour leads police to huge haul of illegal cigarettes
- £4m cigarette smuggle gang told to cough up a small fortune
- Van carrying more than £150,000 worth of tobacco stopped
- The EU’s Track & Trace Smokescreen
- Police visit Normanton shop over litter concerns – and end up finding thousands of counterfeit cigarettes
- Counterfeit tobacco found in hidden compartments in Bradford shop
- Illegal product raids in Calderdale sees 9,500 cigarettes and alcohol seized by trading standards
- Crackdown on illegal trade
- Man, 75, got counterfeit cigarettes from carboot to sell:
- Crackdown on under-age sales and illegal tobacco in Northumberland:
- Sniffer dogs uncover 120,000 suspected illegal cigarettes worth £60,000 in Newcastle bedroom
- Call for tougher penalties on illegal tobacco sellers in South Tyneside
- Over 12 million illegal cigarettes and thousands of litres of alcohol taken off the streets
- New campaign urges communities to ‘Keep It Out’
- Counterfeit cigs and stolen vehicles recovered in Bradford East
- Leeds store stripped of alcohol licence after selling illegal cigarettes
- Over 4,200 reports about illegal tobacco from public since 2017 as public urged to help stop kids smoking
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes seized in raids across Bolton
- Morley corner shop stripped of alcohol licence after selling illegal cigarettes
- Salford newsagent convicted of selling illegal tobacco for a second time – despite desperate attempts to cover his tracks
- Investigation launched after Leeds off licence is caught with illegal tobacco
- Bensham bootlegger claimed dirty money ‘could have been from the bingo
- More than 60,000 illegal cigarettes and tobacco worth £42,000 seized from Gateshead home
- Court order forces shop to close following repeated illegal tobacco offences
- Sniffer dogs find more than £1,200 worth of illegal cigarettes and tobacco hidden in South Shields car
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes stashed in hidden compartment in Byker shop’s toilet
- Bensham woman convicted of selling illegal cigarettes
- Police shut down Huddersfield town centre shop for continual criminal activity
- Illegal tobacco seller from Dewsbury hid 25,000 illicit cigarettes and 11kg of hand rolling tobacco
- Illegal money lender from Crewe sent to prison
- Tens of thousands of illegal cigarettes seized in shop raids
- Blackpool store hauled before licensing chiefs over claims of illegal tobacco sales
- Shopkeeper found with thousands of illegal cigarettes claimed he was a heavy smoker
- HMRC seize 140,000 illegal cigarettes and 11 kilos of tobacco in Leeds
- Tobacco companies raise prices more than required by tax changes, despite claims
- Gateshead couple set up fake Facebook profiles to sell illegal cigarettes and tobacco in ‘rookie attempt’ to make money
- Illegal cigarettes, counterfeit tobacco and Viagra seized in Sunderland raid
- 6,000 viagra tablets and thousands of illegal cigarettes seized in Sunderland dawn raid
- Illegal cigarettes & tobacco seized following dawn raid in Sunderland
- 10,000 Illicit Cigarettes Seized During Multi-Agency Operation in Huddersfield
- Shopkeeper found guilty of selling thousands of fake Regal, Mayfair and Richmond tabs
- Gateshead shop closed for allegedly selling alcohol to children
- Gateshead shop closed for three months after suspected ‘criminal behaviour’
- Durham shop owner behind bars after being caught with over £20,000 worth of counterfeit cigarettes
- Blackhall man jailed for selling counterfeit cigarettes from his Seaham store
- Shopkeeper who attacked in-debt customer with a knife is jailed and more than £21,000 in counterfeit tobacco seized
- Roadshows to raise awareness of illegal tobacco trade set to take place
- Counterfeit cigs found in shops search
- Illegal tobacco results in £35,000 fine and suspended prison sentence
- Warning to shops as new illegal tobacco drive is launched
- Shop ordered to shut over illegal tobacco
- Newcastle shopkeeper told to cough up £1m for selling knock off cigarettes
- Shopkeepers who sell illegal tobacco paying the price
- See the stash of suspected illegal cigarettes hidden under a bathtub in a Newcastle home
- UK approves protocol aimed at reducing illicit tobacco market
- Selling illicit tobacco to undercover officer lands man in court
- Shop targeted in counterfeit raid loses booze licence after trying to transfer it
- Cigarette smuggling ‘kingpin’ must pay £412k or face jail
- Big Tobacco is consistently overstating black market in cigarettes – new findings
- Three jailed after being caught with 1.5million illegal cigarettes worth more than £500,000 in unpaid tax
- Illicit tobacco campaign generates hundreds of tip offs
- Campaign to tackle illicit tobacco reports hundreds of tip offs
- Anonymous tip offs boost illegal cigarette campaign
- Trio jailed for smuggling cigarettes
- Thousands of illegal cigarettes seized from home
- Shop targeted in illegal tobacco raid loses booze licence
- Tobacco industry seeking to control anti-smuggling measures, say critics
- West Yorkshire: Shop raided FIVE TIMES for fake tobacco loses alcohol licence after police step in
- Four members of same family jailed for selling counterfeit cigarettes from ‘tab house’
- Woman who hid illegal cigarettes in Dr Dre headphone boxes told to cough up £16K
- Middlesbrough illegal cigarette stash couple sentenced
- See the suspected stash of illegal cigarettes found in Gateshead shop – hidden behind secret wall:
- Tobacco smuggling gang jailed:
- Tobacco smuggling gang jailed after flooding the North East with 12 million illicit cigarettes:
- Shop where illegal tobacco was passed through loft opening forced to close
- Smuggler sentenced after being caught on A19 with 20,000 illegal cigarettes
- Man fined after counterfeit tobacco and cigarettes found under floorboards of Blackhall shop
- Illegal tobacco seized as part of Operation Grouse
- See the stash of illegal cigarettes which landed a shopkeeper with a hefty fine
- 111,000 illegal cigarettes seized during raids in County Durham
- 94,000 illegal cigarettes seized in County Durham
- Illegal tobacco bought by more than half of teenage smokers
- Over 200,000 suspected illegal cigarettes – raid in Stockton
- Over 20,000 illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized in West Yorkshire raids
- “Keep It Out” campaign targets illegal tobacco sellers in West Yorkshire
- Cut-price cigarettes cost barber £1,500 after he is caught with huge haul of illegal tobacco
- Raids across Newcastle help seize thousands of illegal cigarettes around the city
- West Yorkshire wide raids on illegal tobacco amid reports it was being supplied to children
- Bexley man arrested for tobacco smuggling
- Dogs sniff out illegal tobacco
- 6,000 bootleg cigs seized in raid on newsagent
- Agencies including West Yorkshire Trading Standards and HMRC working with councils to crack down on trade in illegal tabacco
- Spenborough Guardian: Crackdown on illegal cigarettes in Leeds and Kirklees
- Morley Observer: Crackdown on illegal cigarettes in Leeds and Kirklees
- Batley News: Crackdown on illegal cigarettes in Leeds and Kirklees
- Dewsbury Reporter: Crackdown on illegal cigarettes in Leeds and Kirklees
- Crackdown on illegal cigarettes in Wakefield district
- West Yorkshire regions team up to fight illegal tobacco trade
- New “Keep It Out” campaign launches across West Yorkshire and York to tackle illegal tobacco
- Campaign aims to smoke out illegal tobacco
- New campaign launched to tackle illegal tobacco
- New “Keep It Out” campaign launches across West Yorkshire and York to tackle illegal tobacco
- Tip-off leads police to illegal tobacco haul
- 20,000 illegal cigarettes seized from rogue dealer
- Parents urged to help keep illegal tobacco off the streets
- 600 packets of illegal tobacco seized in Accrington and Haslingden
- Man, 70, in court over 40,000 fake cigs
- Smoking out counterfeit tobacco in Blackpool
- Raids across County Durham in crackdown on illegal tobacco
- Murphy and Ozzie help sniff out contraband haul
- Tobacco worth £36k in lost revenue seized
- Airline man fined for cig smuggling
- Ten UK arrests in £50m microwave tobacco smuggling ring
- Sniffer dogs uncover illegal cigarettes at southport shops
- 42,000 rogue cigarettes in £15k Middlesborough haul
- Illegal tobacco run was paying off undesirables
- Police welcome tip-offs on illegal cigs
- Stubbing out illegal tobacco
- Scotland: Tobacco conviction is a first
- Off licence owner jailed for illegal tobacco offences
- Next phase of cigarette war begins
- Support for crackdown on illegal tobacco
- Newsagent sold illegal cigarettes
- Middlesbrough: Crackdown on illegal tobacco
- HMRC raid on tobacco fraudster
- Crackdown on illicit cigs
- 16m Euros worth of illegal cigarettes seized by customs
- Newbiggin pensioner cleared of duty evasion
- Trading standards raids uncovered trade in illegal cigarettes at Bradford city centre store
- Bootleg tobacco is seized in Newcastle raids
- Jail over £131m-a-year fake cigarettes racket
- Couple jailed for illicit tobacco trading
- Over 16.5 million illegal cigarettes seized in Castleton
- Sixty tab houses operating in Middlesbrough
- Court stubs out tobacco sellers
- Manchester airport shop worker jailed for her part in ‘sophisticated’ tax dodge on duty free cigarettes
- Man Jailed over £85,000 of illegal cigarettes
- Crackdown on illegal cigarettes in Blackpool
- 12 million smuggled cigs seized in Gateshead
- Five arrests in Merseyside linked to tobacco and cash
- Stockport man smuggles smoke in mirrors
- Ex-train driver denies part in £200,000 international fraud
- HMRC target illegal tobacco across Lancashire and Manchester
- Game over for Cheshire cigarette smuggler
- Rochdale ‘flowers’ wilt under scrutiny
- Police find more than they bargain for in pound shop
- Welsh ice-cream van sells cigs to kids
- South Shields’ tab houses target kids
- Thousands of cigs seized in double raid
- Cumbria crackdown on ice-cream van tobacco sales
- 10,000 cigarettes seized in Birkenhead shop
- 1 million cigarettes seized at Immingham
- 1.5 million cigarettes seized at Hull
- Barnsley streets safer thanks to illegal cigs raid
- HMRC stop 10-million illegal cigarettes hitting Merseyside streets
- Safer streets in Gateshead following ‘tab-house’ raid
- Manchester ‘snowmen’ cigarette smugglers jailed
- Jail sentance for Bolton men caught selling cheap cigs
- Father and son team ‘lose everything’ after selling illegal tobacco
- Illegal vodka and tobacco gang are given 56 years
- Former football chief scores tax fraud own goal
- Cigarette smuggling gang put behind bars
- Cigarette smuggling scam is stubbed out
- Ice-cream van full of tobacco seized
- Ice-cream van smuggler forced to pay back profits
- Illegal tobacco used to fund terrorism
- Sunderland women smuggled 64,000 cigarettes
- Huge haul of tobacco uncovered in Tyneside
- Gateshead tab house trade exposed
- Crackdown in York
- Counterfeit cousins threaten honest, local businesses
- Crackdown on illegal tobacco sale
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