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1 in 5 cigarettes smoked in Lithuania is smuggled - survey
BC, Vilnius, 16.12.2019.
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Print versionSmuggled cigarettes account for 21.3% of Lithuania's tobacco product market, up by 2 percentage points compared with a year ago, according to the latest empty pack survey by Nielsen referred LETA/BNS.
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The size of the illicit tobacco market had more than halved
since 2010, but started growing again in 2016 to pass the 20% market-share mark in the 4 quarter of 2019, the National
Association of Tobacco Producers said.
As much as 76.5% of all illicit cigarettes
and 16.3% of all cigarettes smoked in Lithuania came from
neighboring Belarus.
The illicit tobacco market accounted for 16.8% in
Latvia and for 9.9% in Estonia in the fourth quarter of this year,
according to the association.
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