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Each case can hold between 18 and 20 cigarettes

The soldiers who guard these crossing points on both sides of the border are bribed to turn the other way

The message is loud and clear plain packaging works, and it is here to stay. Professor Mike Daube, who chaired the governments expert committee that recommended plain packaging, said the tobacco companies were desperate to prevent plain packaging here and internationally because they know it works

Just as official cigarette smoking rates decline across the world, partly due to the restrictions of tobacco use by price, taxation, advertising and ability to even find places to smoke, smuggling has taken hold