'That's a lot of coughing!' - Walsall Trading Standards send thousands of illegal cigarettes for destruction
Thousands of illegal cigarettes have been seized from shops in Walsall thanks to a joint operation.
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In total, and along with police officers from West Midlands Police, Walsall Council Trading Standards caught hundreds of thousands of the illegal smokes, or, in its own words 'enough for a person to smoke 20 a day for over 66 years!'
The cigarettes, as well as hundreds of vapes, were 'all illegal' and seized from shops in Walsall.
A spokesperson for Walsall Council Trading Standards, said: "We're coughing today to sending for destruction enough cigs for a person to smoke 20 a day for over 66 years!
"These were all illegal and seized from shops in Walsall.
"We also got rid of 100's of illegal vapes. That's a lot of coughing! Thanks to T3 @StMatthewsWMP for assisting."
