Back down to earth: Shamed easyJet flight attendant jailed after using staff discount to fund cig-smuggling ring
A flight attendant who led a tax evasion gang that smuggled £180,000-worth of cigarettes through airports has been jailed for 21 months.
Quit the smoke and tell a joke: Stoptober uses comedians to lighten up bid to help people quit
Stoptober campaigners are advising smokers in the North West to ditch the fags for a gag in an attempt to reduce the number of cigarette users in the UK throughout October.
Most wanted: Manchester smuggler makes taxman’s hitlist after role in £28million illegal cigarette racket
Ahmed Salim Khezri was handed a six-year prison sentence in April along with the rest of the organised gang he was a part of after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers smashed their £28million cigarette smuggling conspiracy.
Up in smoke: Rochdale pair see £3.2m bootleg cigarette haul BURNED for National Grid
Two Castleton, Rochdale, pirate tobacco barons are behind bars over a plot to smuggle £3.2million worth of bootlegged cigarettes into Britain – hidden inside crates of fruit.
Venomous vaping? Debate over ‘poison vapours’ threatens to send e-cigarette craze up in smoke
Worries over e-cigarette poisonings have ignited the debate over the introduction of a public UK ban.
Dance troupe ‘drop dead’ in Piccadilly Gardens to remind smokers that tobacco kills one in two
The performance coincides with the Universal Health Conference which takes place at Manchester Central this week
‘I want to put it in my mouth’: E-cigarette campaign sparks-up controversy with rivals branding adverts ‘sexual crap’
VIP will make no apologies for their adverts
Manchester smokers dodge a WEEK of work while ‘lingering’ after cigarette breaks
Revelation came on World No Tobacco Day
David Cameron’s u-turn on cigarette packaging branded ‘weak and pathetic’ by Manchester MP and health experts
Furore over plain packaging ‘u-turn’
Manchester youth smoking shame: Six children take up cigarettes EVERY DAY
More than 10,000 children across region took up habit in 2012