Counterfeit Cigarettes

Summary

Counterfeit Cigarettes is the buying, selling and distributing of fake cigarettes that attempts to trade on legitimate brand names.

Fake cigarettes leads to losses of $4 billion for cigarette manufacturers.

Please note that counterfeit cigarettes are different from Smuggled Cigarettes.

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Market Value:
$4 Billion

Source:  Angelica Medaglia, "Cigarettes Are Costly, but Often Less So in Chinatown," New York Times, September 18, 2007.