Smokers’ paradise: French turn to Belgium for cheap cigarettes: French tobacconists are fuming about Belgians stealing their customers. But they are fighting back, reports John Lichfield
Afew years ago, Adinkerke was a forgotten, dilapidated village of red-brick houses, just inside the Belgian border with France. In the past four years, however, it has been transformed into a glittering mini-Las Vegas: a village full of garish signs reading “Smokey River”, “Eurobaccy”, “Tobacco Alley”, “Smugglers’ Corner”, and “Coronation Street Tobacco Shop”.
The village stands [...]


