All Illicit Tobacco articles – Page 5
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Features and analysis
Retailers call for more education on vaping category
Store owners and their customers need more information about vape products and how to remain compliant
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Features and analysis
Over £25,000 worth of illegal vapes seized from three retailers in Yorkshire and the Humber
Two of the stores were also found to have £3,420 worth of illicit tobacco products
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HMRC investigating ‘single largest’ seizure of illicit tobacco
More than 99 million illicit cigarettes were seized at the Port of Hull by HMRC
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£60,000 worth of illegal tobacco and vapes seized in St Helens
Over 100,000 counterfeit cigarettes were removed from sale
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Trading Standards officers seize 12,000 illicit cigarettes in Telford
Trading standards officers from Telford & Wrekin Council have seized 12,000 cigarettes along with a quantity of illegal vapes in a raid on stores in the area
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Features and analysis
Illicit tobacco worth €73m seized in Belgium
The illicit cigarettes and cut tobacco were destined for the UK market
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Features and analysis
Retailer fined £1,000 for selling illicit tobacco
A retailer in Durham has been ordered to pay over £1,000 after counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco were found in her shop
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Features and analysis
Illegal cigarettes found at four shops in West Sussex
The store owners in Worthing and Bognor Regis face prosecution
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Features and analysis
Elf Bar halts illicit vape haul
Elf Bar has intercepted over a million fake vape products bearing its product names, the majority of which was headed for the UK market
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Retailer fined £6,000 for stocking 14,000 illicit cigarettes
The North West London retailer had already been prosecuted twice
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Features and analysis
Illicit cigarettes cost the UK £2.7bn in 2021
Illicit trade accounts for almost one-in five cigarettes consumed in the UK, according to new research from KPMG and Philip Morris International
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Features and analysis
Lincolnshire stores issued with Closure Orders following illicit tobacco seizure
Two stores in Lincolnshire have been issued with Closure Orders following the discovery of illicit tobacco by Trading Standards officers
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Products In Depth
Stubbing out the illicit tobacco and vaping trade
How retailers, authorities and suppliers are coming together to stem lost sales
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Features and analysis
Increased minimum age of sale for tobacco and retailer licences proposed to cut smoking rates
A report into smoking in England has suggested measures such as increasing the legal age to buy tobacco, raising duties on the category and introducing sales licences
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Features and analysis
Trading Standards teams increase illicit tobacco investigations
Blackpool Trading Standards has quadrupled visits to stores to check for illicit tobacco
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Features and analysis
Cost of living crisis could spark illicit tobacco increase
The Local Government Association has warned that under-pressure consumers could turn to illicit tobacco
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Features and analysis
Vaping products seized in store raid in Westminster
£100,000-worth of counterfeit and illicit products were seized from a store in Westminster
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Illicit tobacco purchased by 71% of UK smokers
Research by the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association found that 71% of consumers bought illicit tobacco over the past year
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Features and analysis
Geek Bar calls on Trading Standards to tackle non-compliant vape products
Vape brand Geek Bar has written to Trading Standards services at local authorities in major UK cities in an effort to raise awareness of the growing issue of non-compliant and counterfeit disposable vape products
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Features and analysis
Croydon Council seizes illicit tobacco worth more than £175,000
Croydon Council trading standards and HM Revenue and Customs teamed up with specialist detection dogs to track down and seize the illegal tobacco