Diena

December 11, 2001

25-Million Cigarettes Up in Smoke

Photo: Man throwing cartons of Benson&Hedges, Marlboro and Marlboro Lights into open furnace.

Caption text: 25-million counterfeit Marlboro, Marlboro Lights and Benson&Hedges brand cigarettes confiscated last summer by law enforcement authorities, were incinerated Monday at a furnace facility in Silakrogs, Riga district. The action was organized by the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), an international organization developing intellectual property rights protection and reform in the Baltic states and CIS.

(page 5, news from Latvia)