If the government lowered the taxes on cigarettes, the smugglers wouldn't have a gap in the market. I am sure the average Joe is on the shopkeeper's side. If you arrest one shopkeeper, another person takes over the enterprise. The media need to stop the "counterfeit/illegal cigarettes" narrative...the cigarettes are duty-free. It's no different getting from the airport shops and selling them on to friends and co-workers.

Oddly, the BBC admit many suppliers are from the asylum seeker hotels; are the MSM now fed up with the illegal migrants?