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Human excrement, asbestos and dead flies: The ingredients found in fake cigarettes that cost the taxpayer billions

By Rob Preece
PUBLISHED: 15:02, 9 September 2012

With reader comments

Fake cigarettes made from human excrement, asbestos, mould and dead flies are being smoked regularly in Britain, undercover detectives have found. Investigators working for the tobacco industry have spent weeks rummaging through litter bins for fag packets to assess the scale of the black market. They were astonished by the sheer volume of the illicit trade, with about one third of packets found to have contained fakes or cigarettes brought in by smugglers.
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Customers who smoke counterfeit cigarettes have been warned they are taking huge health risks. The UK Border Agency has intercepted items containing asbestos, mould and human excrement. A haul in Derbyshire found cigarettes made from the remains of crushed flies. Experts believe that MS Intelligence's findings may be merely the tip of the iceberg.
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'Plans for plain packaging are simply playing into the hands of organised criminals and counterfeiters because it will be so much easier to make copies.'
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More...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-The-ingredients-fake-cigarettes-Britain.html
 
plain packaging will (IMO, obv) unlikely affect black market cigarettes. it doesn't matter that the packaging is apparently easier to fake, people buying black market cigs know they are buying black market cigs in the majority, so it means fuck all if the packaging is similar or not, especially considering "some packets were so sophisticated that they were almost identical to the real thing.".

load of crying from tobacco companies as their profits will be inevitably hit, what other result could come from reduced numbers of smokers? obviously they are shitting themselves and any government policy that will have an effect on smoker numbers will be highly resisted, as it will directly reduce their profits.
 
Customers who smoke counterfeit cigarettes have been warned they are taking huge health risks.
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As opposed to those who smoke normal cigarettes? :|

Only smoke hand rolled cigarettes so it's not an issue...
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Or is it?

'But that does not include hand-rolled tobacco, of which HMRC estimates as much as half is sourced on the black market.'
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Investigators working for the tobacco industry have spent weeks rummaging through litter bins for fag packets to assess the scale of the black market
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Maybe it's because they looked at cigarettes they found in the trash?

Seriously, this story sounds really stupid. Of course tobacco companies are going to say that their competitors have an inferior product.
 
^ I dunno bout you, but trash cans make for a convenient toilet after a long night out. . .

This story smells fishy. Oh and shitty.
 
^ Surely you'd notice that shit when smoking it as well... I mean i've never smoked dead flies but I imagine it don't taste nothing like a normal ciggy.
 
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