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Confiscated Cigarettes To Be Sold, Not Burnt 

Cigarettes, confiscated by Customs or other controlling organs, shall no more be annihilated as is the practice currently, but shall be realized, according to two bills submitted by the Government and MP Valeriu Calmatui and approved by parliament in the first reading today.

The bill drafters think it is not normal that the State itself ruins a property that can well be used much more rationally. Such items can be sold, with proceeds to be transferred to the State Budget. . . .

However, opponents subjected both bills to a sharp criticism. They believed that the interests of foreign cigarette manufacturers would be thus violated.

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