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Hampshire TS has seized 15,000 illicit vapes and tobacco products in the past year
Posted 07 March 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|South East
UPDATES: Hampshire Trading Standards has seized around £300,000 worth of illegal products as part of an intensified crackdown on rogue traders supplying unsafe and age-restricted goods.
Hampshire Trading Standards has announced that over the past 12 months it has seized illegal vapes and counterfeit tobacco products worth £300,000 during operations to combat the sale of potentially harmful goods to people under the age of 18.
Many of the products were seized as a result of test purchasing operations involving young volunteers.
According to Councillor Russell O...
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