Cigarette Smuggling

Plain Packaging Will Create a Fertile Ground for Tobacco Smuggling

Peter Sheridan | Posted 01.02.2013 | UK
Peter Sheridan

If plain packaging goes ahead, counterfeiters who currently have to copy hundreds of different cigarette pack styles, will instead have just one. It will make the production process quicker. It will also make intelligence led investigations even more tricky as communities and retailers find it more difficult to tell apart the counterfeit from the genuine product.

Government Plans for Plain Packaging Will Boost Illicit Trade

Roy Ramm | Posted 31.08.2012 | UK
Roy Ramm

It would be disastrous if the government, by introducing plain-packaging legislation, removes the simplest mechanism for the ordinary consumer to tell whether their cigarettes are counterfeit or not.