Smuggling risk to small businesses
Published: 12:10, 20 August 2004
ONE in five corner shops in Kent and other parts of the South East could be closing because of the effect tobacco smuggling is having on business.
A survey by the Tobacco Alliance says small firms are losing almost £1,000 a week, with 25 per cent making staff redundant.
Its Southern spokesperson Nigel Swan told KM-fm how ports are failing to combat the illegal trade...
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