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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JONATHAN FOWLER- This handout photo released by Polish custom shows a person opening a soccer ball filled with packs of cigarettes in Bezledy, a Polish border crossing with Russia’s Baltic territory of Kaliningrad, on December 21, 2009. Experts estimate that 75 billion cigarettes are now smuggled into the EU each year, mostly via Russia and Ukraine, with all but three percent slipping under customs’ radar. AFP PHOTO / CUSTOM HANDOUT –RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE–