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LTS Week takes bite out of illegal cigs


London Trading Standards Week has kicked off with a focus on illegal cigarettes and tobacco

Richard Young

Posted 07 October 2024 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Crime|London


UPDATES: London Trading Standards Week opens by showcasing the capital's work against illegal tobacco, highlighting major seizures, Operation CeCe enforcement activity and the health, criminal and economic harms caused by illicit cigarettes and vapes.

<a href="http://www.londontradingstandards.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">London Trading Standards</a> (LTS) Week 2024 begins today (7 October) by highlighting the work being done across the capital to stub out illegal cigarettes and tobacco.

According to LTS, in London alone, nearly one million cigarettes were removed from sale between A...

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