Campaigners say cheap illegal cigarettes undermine attempts to encourage people to give up the habit.
Investigators have seized more than £7 million worth of cigarettes in a blitz on the illegal tobacco trade.
They recovered 13 million cigarettes and 4,300 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco in the first year of a major Trading Standards operation. The action involved raids on shops and homes in England and Wales, with seizures at the border of smuggled tobacco and cash and the closure of illegal factories abroad.
The operation, revealed on national No Smoking Day, included HM Revenue and Customs staff, Border Force officials, police and local authorities.More than 680,000 cigarettes with a market value of up to £200,000 were found in a house at Banbury, Oxfordshire, after they were advertised on Facebook.
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