Nicotine Products

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  How physical brand investigation methods are evolving

  Don't overlook brick-and-mortar retailers when planning your brand protection programme, advises ApiraSol's Axel Hein.

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  Illicit tobacco plant may have exploited Ukrainian refugees

  Italian police seized 82 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes and packaging mimicking several top brands.

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  Chinese vape producer RLX says new regs could curb fakes

  Requirements to register businesses and products could make it harder for fraudsters to operate, says CEO Kate Wang.

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  Counterfeit cigarette gang dismantled in France

  11 arrests were made, and more than 2.5 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes were seized, worth about €1.25m.

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  Illegal cigarette factory shut down in Belgium

  The operation led to the arrests of 14 people suspected of supplying illegal cigarettes to the black market in France and the UK.

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  Counterfeit goods 'increasingly being made in the EU'

  Frequent seizure of fake packaging materials and semi-finished products points to the presence of EU manufacturing.

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