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'Tab houses' target child smokers

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Cheap cigarettes smuggled from abroad and sold illegally in "tab houses" are getting children hooked on smoking, trading standards officers have warned.

The cigarettes are sold from private homes without age checks, creating a new generation of smokers, they claim.

Naomi Cornwell reports.

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