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Since May 2017, plain packaging regulations require all cigarettes to be sold in standardised olive green packaging with no branding other than the brand name in a standard plain typeface, along with large pictorial health warnings

Councillor Jenny Hannaby, Oxfordshire County Councils Cabinet Member for Community Safety, said: While there is no safe level of smoking, there is also no way of knowing what is contained in unregulated and counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco products, which could put your health at an even greater risk

Durham County Council took enforcement action against James Lennox following an investigation by its trading standards team into the supply of illicit tobacco

Taken from the Irish Mirror