Eight Shops Shut for Illegal Tobacco Sales This Year as Council Team Steps up Fight

Eight shops shut for illegal tobacco sales this year as council team steps up fight

THE BOROUGH'S trading standards team is supporting a national campaign to crackdown on illegal tobacco sales.

Thousands of illegal cigarettes seized and three businesses closed

illegal cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco with an estimated retail value of nearly £3,000 were seized from multiple premises

Three Darlington shops shut down after thousands of illegal cigarettes seized

Thousands of illegal cigarettes have been seized in a trading standards crackdown in Darlington.

Shop could be forced to close after thousands of illicit cigarettes found

Nearly 4,500 illegal cigarettes as well as non-compliant vapes, banned lighters and counterfeit energy drinks were found

More than 33 million illicit cigarettes seized from UK shops in major crackdown

The haul is part of Operation CeCe, a joint initiative between National Trading Standards and HM Revenue and Customs

BIR apprehends 1,793 in crackdown on illicit vape, cigarettes

By Anna Leah Gonzales NATIONWIDE CRACKDOWN. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) officials inspect a store as part of the agency’s simultaneous nationwide Tax Compliance Verification Drive on July 20, 2026. BIR personnel inspected around 3,590 establishments engaged in the sale and distribution of cigarettes, vapor products, and heated tobacco products as part of its intensified campaign against illicit trade and excise tax violations. (Photo courte…