When a smuggler gets caught he has to pay a heavy fine or face a jail sentence and the cigarettes are seized and are then destroyed.
Why don’t Customs and Excise sell the smuggled goods? It seems such an uneconomical waste to destroy the goods.
Richard Hodges
Claremont Road
Laindon
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