City of MEXICO.-the number of illegal cigarettes brands amounted to 300, then that in the past 5 months was detected income by smuggling of 50 more. According to British American Tobacco (BAT), the sale of illegal cigarettes in Mexico amounts to 17 percent of the total market. This is around 6 billion cigars, which affects the Mexican Government as products which evade tax 5 thousand 800 million pesos per year. Gastón Zambrano Margáin, director of Legal and Corporate Affairs of BAT, said that the detection of this type of illegal cigarettes has complicated, because come "disguised" some of them with photos similar to those that appear in the glyphs. This is that you it's brands that meet... [Read more]