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Crackdown on counterfeit and underage tobacco sales 

TRADING Standards has vowed to stamp down on counterfeit cigarettes and underage sales following the conviction of a man who sold fake cigarettes to kids from his ice cream van.

Anthony Thomas Wharton pleaded guilty at Furness Magistrates’ Court on Thursday to selling counterfeit cigarettes and unauthorised use of a trademark following a Trading Standards investigation.

The court was told that Wharton, 61, had targeted children from his ice cream van, selling counterfeit Regal cigarettes at �3.50 a packet.

Wharton, of Marsden Street, Barrow, was given a 12-month community order, requiring him to do 60-hours of unpaid work and pay �350 costs to Cumbria County Council.

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