“Shares in Imperial Brands, the tobacco giant behind JPS, Davidoff, Winston and Gauloises, trade at a five-year high, despite higher duties on cigarettes and vapes in the latest UK Budget.

A minute or so later he re-emerges with several packs of illegal cigarettes. We buy 20-packs of Marlboro and Benson & Hedges for £5 each — about a third of what legal versions of those brands cost in ...

Trading Standards officers have seized 225 packs of illegal cigarettes, 30 packs of counterfeit hand rolling tobacco, and 29 illegal vapes from two shops in Aberdeen – one of which stashed their ...

Illicit cigarettes, too, can be more dangerous than legal brands — and much cheaper. In the UK the average pack of 20 cigarettes costs around £15. At the shops we visited, prices ranged from £ ...