VIDEO - Poland is frontline in EU battle with tobacco smugglers..

May 11, 2010 - Seventy-five billion cigarettes circulate illegally in Europe every year. Nearly three-quarters of those come from Russia and Ukraine, where their price is half that of Western Europe. In Mazuria, in northeast Poland, customs officers do daily battle with the traffickers.

VIDEO - Poland is frontline in EU battle with tobacco smugglers..

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