Lithuania’s underground tobacco product market amounts to approximately LTL 300 million (EUR 87 million), informs LETA/ELTA, referring to Lietuvos rytas.
Lithuania is a transit country and its role is significant when solving the issue of illegal tobacco product trade in the whole Europe.
“In Lithuania the number of consumed illegal cigarettes is considerably higher than the EU average. Every third cigarette smoked in Lithuania is smuggled. Furthermore, Lithuania is second only to Latvia in extent of cigarette smuggling,” said one of the authors of the research Professor Francesco Calderoni.
Source: The Baltic Course
http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/markets_and_companies/?doc=91967