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Police and trading standard officers seized the substances during joint shop raids. A specially trained sniffer dog was used to detect concealed illicit tobacco which is smuggled or counterfeit products with no duty paid on them. Town hall chiefs say such products have links to organised crime, does not raise tax for the NHS and encourages under-age customers to take up smoking. And one retailer was found to be displaying canisters of the potentially dangerous gas nitrous oxide alongside balloons, which say officers, suggested it was being sold for recreational use. Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, is a legal product that can be sold for legitimate use in the catering industry.