B
Evidence Grade B
Graded
under review
Safe to Cite
Current
14.5%
14.5% -- illegal market share for UK tobacco market (illegal tobacco and vape sales) (2026)
Attribution:
View source
Lighthouse Research Team
Last verified:
·
How we verify data →
Source verified
Evidence graded
Value
14.5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
asiantrader.biz
Primary
Tier B
https://www.asiantrader.biz/illegal-cigarettes-vapes-seized-plungington-police-raid ↗
Source Article
Illicit tobacco, vapes seized in multi
Original Research
asiantrader.biz
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Reported in a UK retail trade publication citing unnamed 'official figures'; stated as a floor value ('at least 14.5 per cent of the market is now taken up by illegal sales'). No specific reporting period given, so collection year 2026 used.
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
Cite this stat
Plain Text
UK tobacco market (illegal tobacco and vape sales): 14.5% illegal market share. Source: asiantrader.biz (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-tobacco-illegal-market-share-2026
HTML Embed
<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-tobacco-illegal-market-share-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>14.5%</strong> -- illegal market share for UK tobacco market (illegal tobacco and vape sales)<br><small>Source: asiantrader.biz (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-tobacco-illegal-market-share-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
Share
Related Statistics
Use this data in your work
Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.