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Illicit cigarette trade costs EU €13bn annually as manufacturing boom spreads

A European Court of Auditors report finds that illicit tobacco manufacturing has overtaken smuggling, with one in ten cigarettes now illegal across the bloc.

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  1. Organised crime driving illicit cigarette factory boom ‘in almost every EU state’ The Guardian Business ·

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  • European Court of Auditors
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