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They often arise due to restrictions, prohibitions, high taxes, or limited availability of certain items

While legally produced Manchester cigarettes from Dubai are not high quality, the illegally produced South-East Asian copies have the distinctive lawn mower clippings flavour of counterfeit cigarettes

Criminology professor Emmeline Taylor argues that these criminal supply chains behind the supply of illegal tobacco are linked to other forms of crime - and the damage can't be overestimated

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Professor Georgios Antonopoulos, criminologist at Northumbria University Newcastle, believes money is at the heart of it

[6] Public tolerance and acceptance of illegal cigarettes as a norm also factors into the continued purchase behavior among consumers, as they believe legitimate cigarettes are over-taxed and too expensive