'Illegal cigs kill 4,000' SMUGGLING.THOUSANDS of smokers' lives could be saved by stamping out smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain gangs who bring in cheap tobacco, experts claim. They warn that illegal cigarettes - which can cost just pounds 2.50 a packet instead of pounds 5.50 - kill around 4,000 people every year by keeping the price down. If smuggling was cut out, experts argue, prices would go up 12 per cent. Professor Robert West Robert West (b. 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and world-renowned chemist best known for his groundbreaking research in silicon chemistry, as well as for his work with oxocarbons and organolithium compounds. , of Cancer Research, said: "The availability of cheap cigarettes removes the price incentive to quit." |
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