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Illegal cigarettes and tobacco worth £12,500 seized from stores in Grimsby crackdown

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This week, a raid on shops in Freeman Street and Hainton Avenue, Grimsby, saw more than 40,000 illegal cigarettes and around 10kg of illicit hand-rolling tobacco seized. Public health experts say some of these items would almost certainly have been smoked by young people in…

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