fake richmond cigarettes Man jailed after Gloucestershire's biggest illegal cigarette haul found Over 400,000 illegal cigarettes found

Since May 2017, plain packaging regulations require all cigarettes to be sold in standardised olive green packaging with no branding other than the brand name in a standard plain typeface, along with large pictorial health warnings

Another could contain almost anything

He told officers he had paid 900 for the cigarettes- but the full retail price of legitimate cigarettes would be almost 3,000

A specially trained tobacco detection dog was used to detect the illegal products and the day long operation yielded around 14,500 counterfeit and/or non UK duty paid cigarettes

The safest option is to dispose of them and avoid the seller in future.

Khalid was handed a three-and-a-half-year sentence