{"id":85772,"date":"2026-03-02T07:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85772"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:27:54","slug":"albanian-gangs-flood-britain-with-illegal-cigarettes-how-balkan-criminals-are-using-social-media-to-sell-smuggled-tobacco-for-express-delivery-to-british-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/02\/albanian-gangs-flood-britain-with-illegal-cigarettes-how-balkan-criminals-are-using-social-media-to-sell-smuggled-tobacco-for-express-delivery-to-british-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian gangs flood Britain with illegal cigarettes: How Balkan criminals are using social media to sell smuggled tobacco for &#8216;express delivery&#8217; to British homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/01\/22\/15\/105701079-15477613-image-a-4_1769095104151.jpg\" alt=\"An Albanian-language TikTok page advertising cheap cigarettes for home delivery in the UK. This particular page has been taken down after it was flagged to TikTok by the Mail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Albanian gangs are using\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-8113dcc0-f7b1-11f0-8678-f32f93f69c1b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/tiktok\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">TikTok<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-c437e0a0-f5fe-11f0-a2f5-2fa7b55f51e9\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/facebook\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Facebook<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-a0ebb370-f6cf-11f0-b9df-49df23717ed5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/instagram\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Instagram<\/a><\/span> to sell cut-price cigarettes for &#8216;express delivery&#8217; to British homes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15477613\/Albanian-gangs-flood-Britain-illegal-cigarettes-Balkan-criminals-using-social-media-sell-smuggled-tobacco-express-delivery-British-homes.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Albanian gangs are using\u00a0TikTok,\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram to sell cut-price cigarettes for &#8216;express delivery&#8217; to British homes. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/illegal-cigarettes.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85774,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772\/revisions\/85774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}