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Legal sales of cigarettes drop sharply as black market sales soar

Published on 10/01/2012

Legal sales of cigarettes took another sharp fall in 2011, dropping by 16.5%, on the back of a 10.3% fall in 2010. The black market in cigarettes has, however, reappeared after large tax increases were applied to tobacco by the Government ...