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People just brazenly ask: 'Have you got any cheap tobacco?'
Mohammed Rajak says shops selling illicit tobacco are the biggest threat to his livelihood
Mohammed Rajak has run his family grocery store in Glasgow's East End for 35 years.
He's seen his business change over that time, but he says the biggest threat to his livelihood right now are shops selling illicit tobacco and vapes.
He says his own shop does not sell such products but there are stores very close by that do.
"Sometimes they even come in and say: 'Oh, we've come to the wrong shop'.
"It used to be they would lower their voices. Now it's just brazen: 'Have you got any cheap tobacco?'."
Rajak says he watches as people he has refused to serve walk to the shop he suspects of selling illicit products.
He says they'll sell to anyone, including children, because they're operating without risk.
"You wouldn't you go into a shop and buy out-of-date medicine because it's going to be harmful for you, so I don't know why you'd so something similar with illicit tobacco and vapes," he says.
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