Illicit Tobacco Partnership

A NEW campaign is launching across West Yorkshire and York (14 July) to tackle the trade in illegal tobacco and stop dealers who sell to children.

Kirklees Council is backing a new campaign to tackle the trade in illegal tobacco and stop dealers who sell to children.

A new campaign is launching across West Yorkshire and York (14 July) to tackle the trade in illegal tobacco and stop dealers who sell to children.

A NEW campaign is launching across West Yorkshire and York (14 July) to tackle the trade in illegal tobacco and stop dealers who sell to children. The trade in cheap, illegal tobacco might seem like a victimless crime but it makes it easier for children to smoke and brings crime into local communities. Illegal cigarettes […]

A CRACKDOWN on the illegal tobacco trade and the sale of cigarettes to children will begin across West Yorkshire and York today.

New efforts to crack down on the illegal tobacco trade have begun today with raids on shops suspected of dealing in the potentially deadly business.

A tobacco smuggler who tried to bribe police to ‘look the other way’ has been jailed.

Health campaigners have called for a pioneering approach launched in the North-East in 2009 to tackle illegal tobacco to be rolled out nationally following the publication of a report by MPs.

Tobacco detection dogs discovered 24,100 illegal cigarettes and more than 25 kilos of illicit rolling tobacco in raids across Bradford and Leeds.

Efforts to tackle tobacco smuggling have been hampered by a “farcical” lack of action by the government and its agencies, a committee of MPs has said. The MPs also suggested that concerns over boosting the black market should not trump public health considerations in the debate over plain packaging.