657 billion cigarettes sold illegally each year

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657 billion cigarettes are sold illegally each year, killing 132,000 people. In addition,  half of all cigarettes sold in developing countries are illegal.

Source:  Denis Campbell, “Developing world faces black market cigarette plague,” The Observer, June 28, 2009.



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