They found that 25.6% of manufactured cigarettes in the UK were contraband or counterfeit in 2024 - much higher than HMRCs figure of 10.5% - but groups like ASH ignore this because the research is industry-funded
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"We're against the tax increase, but the government has made up its mind and there's nothing we can do." Critics say Japan's failure to push prices even higher, or to introduce blanket smoking bans, stems from the government's 50.2% stake in Japan Tobacco, from which it receives about 1 trillion in tax revenue a year
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The FDA also wrote letters to 24 US-based middlemen, including distributors that are crucial to the unauthorised vape market, as part of a crackdown in May