Malaysia - one out of three packets of cigarettes was smuggled.

August 26, 2010 - ALOR GAJAH (a town and district in Malacca): Smuggled cigarettes in Malaysia has increased 150% in the past six years. The upward trend was from 14.4% in 2004 to the current 37.1%.

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency’s director-general Admiral Datuk Mohd Amdan Kurish said one out of three packets of cigarettes in Malaysia was smuggled.

He said this to reporters on Thursday, August 26th after attending a ceremony where a total of 52,783 cartons of smuggled cigarettes seized between 2008 and August 2010 worth some RM3.5mil (1,114,294.80 USD) were destroyed using a crush machine at its Kuala Linggi district office ground earlier.

We reported early in July 2010 that Malaysia - doing a better job of seizing smuggled cigarettes..


We all await the World Health Organization's (WHO) solution to the problem of tobacco product smuggling faced by countries throughout the world..

Reference: Cigarette smuggled into Malaysia up by 150% by ALLISON LAI, the Star Online, 8/26/2010.

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