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• It's a long drag to Luxembourg but British smokers say it's worth it 

Thousands of Britons are driving to Luxembourg for cheap cigarettes after price rises in France and Belgium.

The dash to the Duchy means another six hours on a motorway after crossing the Channel, but the savings are considered sufficiently worthwhile to justify a night's fitful sleep on a coach.

Top Balcony, one of the companies ferrying smokers to Luxembourg, now has a waiting list of customers who, if they buy their full allowance of 3,200 cigarettes and three kilos of rolling tobacco, can save more than £100 on Belgian prices.

With a sleeve of 200 cigarettes costing just over £20, Luxembourg is £5 cheaper than Adenkirke, a Belgian village almost wholly dedicated to the sale of tobacco to British day-trippers

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