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By Angus Crawford, BBC News
A woman in a shop in Belarus gives tips on smuggling cigarettes
A town in Belarus is producing billions of cigarettes a year, about a third of which are thought to be smuggled to the EU. How do they end up in the UK and what measures are taken to stop the illegal trade?
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But it’s the long, yellow building with grilles on its windows stretching along Harnavych Street that we have come to see – the “Neman” cigarette factory.
It produces more than 20 billion cigarettes per year, but a third of them are thought to end up being smuggled into the European Union.
The “Neman” factory produces more than 20 billion cigarettes per year
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