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Simon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said: "The sale of cheap, illegal tobacco by rogue traders in shops, private homes and through social media is funding organised criminal gangs and damaging legitimate traders, as well as making it easier for young people to get hooked on smoking, which undermines councils' efforts to help people quit

The safest option is to dispose of them and avoid the seller in future.

Officials said the find was made by customs officials during a routine inspection of a heavy goods vehicle at the Port on Wednesday of last week

The court heard how they were selling silver Benson & Hedges (B&H) cigarettes, which generally retail for 9, for 2.75

The cigarettes were hidden behind sacks of potatoes

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