COUNTERFEIT CIGARETTES FILLED WITH RABBIT DROPPINGS CONFISCATED
ABOVE: The cigarettes were confiscated by customs / Europics.at
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ABOVE: The fake fags stunk of burning s**t
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MORE than £1 million-worth of counterfeit cigarettes filled with rabbit droppings instead of tobacco have been confiscated by customs officials.
The fake fags - due to be sold on the black market as famous brands - were discovered after British holiday-makers in the Canary Islands smelled a rat whenever they lit the cheap cigarettes.
One customs official in Tenerife said: "They stunk. They smell just as you'd imagine burning s**t to smell."
Police and customs staff arrested 12 smugglers in an undercover operation to intercept the cigarettes as they landed on a boat from China.
A customs official told the Austrian Times: "They not only smell bad but the toxic chemicals they give off are pure poison."