The last pack of UK-made cigarettes has rolled off the production line as the country’s only tobacco factory prepares to shut down for good from Monday with over 500 job losses in total.
Only 70 staff will remain at the Imperial Tobacco plant in Nottingham as part of a “decommissioning process.”
The closure has been blamed partly on changing attitudes to smoking in Britain.
At its height the factory produced 52 billion cigarettes a year and employed 7,000 workers.
Operations will now be moved to Germany and Poland.
Cigarettes have been produced in Nottingham since 1860.
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Chris Needham of the GMB union blamed the “stigma of smoking” as one of the major factors in the decline of the industry.
Resource: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/last-ever-pack-uk-made-8019175
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