Contraband cigarettes do not come with the Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette mark, which features a series of vertical lines and the letters "SDPC".
Meanwhile, the number of prosecutions for offences, including the buying, selling, possessing, delivering and storing of illegal cigarettes, fell from 582 to 508 last year.
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