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While Europe struggles to curb smoking, the underworld is breathing again: illegal cigarette traffic is breaking records.
According to a study by KPMG for Philip Morris International, almost one in two cigarettes consumed in the country was not purchased from a buralist in 2024. The parallel tobacco trade has reached a historically high level. It has indeed become too simple to buy contraband cigarettes. To pay less, other smokers are ready to buy on the black market. To fight against this parallel market, the buralists demand more firmness. (Conso and trends).
The illegal consumption of cigarettes increased by almost eleven percent in the EU countries, thus avoiding billions of revenues from the states.
The Republic of Moldova is identified in the KPMG report “Illicit Cigarette Consumption in Europe – 2024 Results” as an active source and a major transit corridor for the illicit cigarette trade that severely affects the states of the European Union, especially Romania. According to the document, 38.9 billion illicit cigarettes were consumed in the European Union in 2024 – the highest level in the last decade. Although Moldova is not a member of…
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