In the first 10 months of 2025, Romanian authorities seized over 186 million contraband cigarettes, with an estimated black-market value of 172,878,529 lei more than three times the total seizures recorded in 2024, according to data aggregated on the www.stopcontrabanda.ro platform, the only real-time tracker of illegal cigarette seizures in Romania
Warning phrases include causes 16 cancers, damages your lungs, and poisons in every puff. Canada is the only other country in the world to have such requirements
This warning was drawn from reviewing nearly 60 years' worth of medical studies
They also emphasise the importance of conducting a mass media campaign to reinforce this message
However, later on, manufacturers attempted to make candela cigars with Dominican tobacco, but it delivered a sour taste