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Places featuresYou are in: Suffolk > Places > Places features > Up in Smoke!  Up in Smoke!By Kieran Turner Giving up smoking was made slightly easier over the Christmas 2006 period as more than 7 million cigarettes were seized at Felixstowe port, which had been smuggled in from the Far East.  Hundreds of unsold North East CDs The cigarettes were seized by HM Revenues and Customs officers, when they examined a container from Hanjing Gothenburg. The ship carrying the container had recently arrived from Port Kelang in Malaysia. The duty and VAT chargeable on this amount of cigarettes, and that the smugglers were hoping to avoid, is about £1.5 million.  The consignment was described as re-writable CDs. However, hidden amongst the load, officers discovered more than 7.2 million illicit cigarettes. The tobacco was confiscated by Customs officials and will now be put to much better use. The cigarettes will be recycled and burnt by power stations, and the energy this creates will go towards powering the national grid.  Anyone with information about illegally imported cigarettes or tobacco can call our 24 hour confidential hotline number on 0800 59 5000 last updated: 19/06/2008 at 11:16 You are in: Suffolk > Places > Places features > Up in Smoke! |
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