From: EurActiv
Bulk tobacco smuggling increases, worrying OLAF and Commission
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In at least nine European countries, seven of which are in the Balkans, where tobacco growing is a tradition, illegal bulk tobacco accounts for more than half of the total amount of cut tobacco consumed. The countries are Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia, Albania, Kosovo and Bulgaria.
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Poland has already been severely hit by illicit trade in cigarettes and bulk tobacco further worsened the situation.
