GfK: tobacco black market started to grow again

The previous downward trend of tobacco black market has changed. The illegal tobacco market share totaled at  5.8 percent this year, after 4.2 percent of last year – the GfK Market Research Institute told MTI on Monday.

The datas show that the black markets hit the eastern part of the country the hardest: Szabolcs-Szatmár Bereg, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Hajdú-Bihar counties, but illegal trade gradually shifting to the southern counties, Csongrád, Bács-Kiskun and Tolna counties. (MTI)