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Border guards have intercepted smuggled cigarettes worth EUR 203,000 and detained a Belarusian citizen in southern Lithuania suspected of transporting them, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) reported.

Customs officers and border guards last week seized a record consignment of illegal cigarettes worth EUR 2.6 million at the border with Poland, the Customs Criminal Service said Wednesday.

A weather balloon landed in a military area in Alytus, southern Lithuania, on Tuesday. It is believed that it was carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus. On Wednesday, 2 October, another weather balloon was noticed in a military area in Vilnius district.

Cigarette smuggling has halved in Lithuania this year. In January-May 2024, border guards intercepted 587,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes, compared with 1.1 million in the same period of 2023.

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The market of illegal cigarettes in Lithuania has further expanded over the past year and remains among the biggest in the European Union, according to the latest study by the international audit, tax and consulting company KPMG.

A secret underground cigarette factory has been found in Spain and the detainees include four Lithuanians.

204 new points of sale of illegal tobacco emerged in Lithuania, with their number going up by a tenth from a year earlier, the association "Lithuanian Without Shadow" says.

As official statistics of Lithuania show cigarettes purchase decreased last year but not the mortality rate due to smoking-related diseases.

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The Lithuanian Customs seized almost 64 million illegal cigarettes with a total estimated value of 9.5 million euros in the first half of this year, making up the bulk of all smuggled goods detained during the period.

As Lithuania continues leading the European Union (EU) in terms of illicit cigarette market, executive director of the Lithuanian Association of Tobacco Producers says that successful prevention was the best way of fighting smuggling activities.

Four out of five packets of smuggled cigarettes in Lithuania come from Belarus, according to a survey of used packets conducted at the end of last year by Nielsen.

Annual per capita consumption of legal cigarettes in Lithuania rose to 50 packs last year, from 47.4 packs in 2013, data from Statistics Lithuania shows.

Illicit cigarettes last year accounted for 28.3 percent of Lithuania's market of tobacco products, the second highest rate in Europe after Latvia's, according to the latest study by the international audit, tax and consulting company KPMG.

The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, has passed a law prohibiting youngsters under 18 not only to consume tobacco products, but to possess them altogether.

Continued flows of cigarettes smuggling into Lithuania have highlighted a new tendency – increasing amounts of tobacco enter the country from the European Union's (EU) member-state Latvia rather than the Russian Kaliningrad region or Belarus, as the case was before, the Lietuvos Žinios daily said.

Lithuanian customs are stepping up the control on the border with Latvia in response to the growing flows of cigarette smuggling.