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LONDON Tobacco smugglers and black market salesmen are increasingly using technologies such as social media and drones to deliver cigarettes to smokers in Europe and avoid law enforcers, a report by consulting group KPMG published on Wednesday found

After the turn of the twentieth century, cigarettes became a mass phenomenon worldwide, one that surpassed other tobacco goods such as pipe tobacco, snuff and cigars and still continues to enjoy the greatest popularity on the international scale

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Last year, an influential panel of US experts concluded there was only limited evidence of their effectiveness